Ruman loses, others too

Archer Ruman Sana won his first match before losing the next round as all the Bangladeshi archers were eliminated from the individual events on the second day of the Archery World Cup Stage – 2 in Lausanne, Switzerland yesterday.

The premier recurve archer of the country beat Oona Mart of Estonia by 6-0 set points in the 1/24 round to advance into the 1/16 round, where lost against Brady Ellison of the United States by 6-2 set points.

In women's recurve individual round, Beauty Roy and Dia Siddiqui lost against their Turkish and Russian opponents respectively in the 1/24 round. In men's individual compound event, national champion Asim Kumar Das lost by 146-134 points against his Iranian counterpart in the 1/24 round.

Earlier on Tuesday, Ruman had got a bye in his first round match while his teammates Tamimul Islam, Ram Krishna Saha and Hakim Ahmed Rubel lost their respective first-round matches to be eliminated.