DHAKA, Nov 6, 2021 (BSS) - Teer 22nd Asian Archery Championship will
begin from November 13 at Bangladesh Army Stadium in the city.

     The high profile Asian championship, sponsored by City Group, the
sponsor partner of Bangladesh Archery Federation (BAF) for improvement of the
game with slogan of "Teer Go for Gold". A total of 131 archers -- 78 of men's
and 53 of women's – from seventeen countries will compete in week-long meet
which will be contested in ten events.

     The events are recurve men's teamevent, recurve men's singles, recurve
women's teamevent, recurve women's singles and recurve mixed team events,
compound men's teamevent, compound men's singles, compound women's teamevent,
compound women's singles, and compound women's teamevent.

     In this regards, a press conference was held today (Saturday) at the
city local hotel to provide all the details of the meet. After the press
conference the logo of the championship was also unveiled.

     The organizers of the championship informed that this time seventeen
countries would compete in the meet. The participating countries are India,
Iran, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon,
Pakistan, Qatar, Sri Lanka, Syria, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen and host
Bangladesh. They informed that the participating archers would be
accommodated to Sheraton Dhaka, the hospitality partner of the championship,
during the competition.

     The organizers said the World Archery Asia Congress 2021 will be held on
November 12, the day before the championship, at Sheraton Dhaka from 2 pm to
5 pm with Congress Archery Asia president and Hyundai Group chairman Euisun
Chung is expected to present there.

     BAF president Lieutenant general Mohammad Mainul Islam, BAF vice
president and City Group director Mohammad Hasan, BAF general secretary Kazi
Razib Uddin Ahmed Chapal, City Group executive director Jafar Uddin Siddique,
Bangladesh Archery team's head coach Martin Frederick and officials of BAF
were present in the press conference.

     Meanwhile the BAF also released the names of archers of the Bangladesh
archery team which comprised with fifteen archers and eight officials.

     The Bangladesh archers are Ruman Sana, Ram Krishno Saha, Mohammad Hakim
Ahmed Rubel, Abdur Rahman Alif, (recurve men's), Diya Siddique, Beauty Roy,
Nasrin Akter, Sraboni Akter (recurve women's), Asim Kumar Das Newaz Ahmed
Rakib, Sohel Rana, Mohammad Ashikuzzaman (compound men's), Bonna Akter , Suma
Biswash and Shamoly Roy (compound women's).