Koly shoots her way into historic final

Kamrun Nahar Koly became the first Bangladeshi shooter to qualify for the finals of the women's 10m Air Rifle event in the ISSF World Cup, but the promising shooter had to be content with an eighth-placed finish in the shootout in Jakarta yesterday.

Koly -- who had made history by recording the best score by a Bangladeshi shooter in the qualification round of the same event by scoring 629.2 out of 654 during the ISSF World Championships in Cairo in October 2022 -- scored 628.4 in the qualification round to finish sixth among 53 shooters.

However, the 22-year-old from Narayangaj could not shine quite as brightly in the eight-shooter final round and was eliminated from the third round. Eszter Meszaros from Hungary and Aneta Stankiewicz from Poland qualified for the gold-medal match, where Meszaros triumphed.

Koly's teammates -- Shaira Arefin, Nafisa Tabassum and Sajida Haque -- finished 15th, 16th and 31st in the qualification round of the same event, scoring 626.5, 626.5 and 623 respectively.