Rubel, Diya go down in quarters

All the Bangladeshi archers were eliminated from individual recurve events of Asian Archery Championships as South Korean archers dominated both events to make it all-Korean semifinals at the Army Stadium in Banani yesterday.

Hakim Ahmed Rubel and Diya Siddique of Bangladesh, though, registered their best efforts in the quarterfinals before suffering defeats against their Korean opponents.

Rubel offered little resistance against third-ranked Lee Seungyun in a 6-2 set points defeat in the quarterfinal. Rubel, however, had beaten country's top archer Ruman Sana by 6-4 set points in pre-quarterfinal to move into the last eight on such a big stage for the first time. The other local archer, Abdur Rahman Alif, lost 6-0 against second-ranked Kim Pil-Joong in Round of 16.

In women's individual recurve, Olympian Diya lost by 7-1 set points against fourth-ranked Jung Dasomi of South Korea. Diya had beaten fifth-ranked Ankita Bhakt of India 6-4 in the pre-quarterfinal. Nasrin Akter and Sraboni Akter suffered defeats in the second round while Beauty Roy lost in the first round of the event.