Mohammad Ruman Shana (Bengali: রোমান সানা; born 8 June 1995) is a Bangladeshi archer. He won the bronze medal in recurve single's event of 2019 World Archery Championships and became the first Bangladeshi archer in history to win a medal in the competition.[1] He lives in Khulna.[2] Shana won gold in the men's singles recurve category at the 2019 Asia Cup in the Philippines.[3]
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| Full name | Mohammad Ruman Shana | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | M.R. Shana | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Bangladeshi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 June 1995 Koyra Upazila, Khulna, Bangladesh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Bangladesh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Archery | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Recurve | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Martin Frederick | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Highest world ranking | 10 (16 September 2019) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Early life
editRuman born to the family of Abdul Gafur Shana and Beauty Begom and passed his childhood at Koyra village in Khulna. He used to play with arrow-bow made by bamboo during his school days. In an interview with BDnews24, he said that he was not much attentive to his school, instead, he used to remain busy playing football. However, he later opted to try his hand in archery when he was a student of class eight.[4]
Career
editRuman won the gold medal in the First Asian Grand Prix 2014 in Bangkok, Thailand.[5] He won another gold medal in the International Archery Tournament 2017, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.[6]
In 2019, he won three international medal with first one- a silver medal- came in the ISSF International Solidarity Archery Championships. After that, he won a bronze in the 2019 World Archery Championships, and later, Roman won a gold medal in the Asia Cup ranking tournament.[7]
23 May 2021, he along with Diya Siddique claimed silver medal in the recurve mixed team event during the 2021 Archery World Cup where Bangladesh emerged as runners-up to Netherlands in the final.[8][9] Despite losing the final 5–1, it was the best performance by Bangladesh at an Archery World Championship.[10] It also marked the first instance whereas Bangladesh managed to reach final in an event of Archery World Cup.[11]
References
edit- ^ "Ruman Shana wins first medal for BD in World Archery". The Daily Observer. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- ^ তির-ধনুকে ‘রোমান সাম্রাজ্য’. Prothom Alo (in Bengali). Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- ^ Wells, Chris (13 September 2019). "Shana wins Bangladesh's third international gold medal with victory at Asia Cup". World Archery. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
- ^ Jubayer, Mohammad. গুলতিম্যান থেকে দেশসেরা তিরন্দাজ রোমান. bdnews24.com (in Bengali). Retrieved 17 September 2019.
- ^ "Ruman brings archery gold". The Daily Star. 16 March 2014. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
- ^ "Roman Sana clinches gold at International Archery". The Asian Age. Bangladesh. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
- ^ "Mohammad Ruman Shana wins gold in archery men's singles". HiFi Public. 15 September 2019. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
- ^ "Ruman, Diya lose in final". The Daily Star. 23 May 2021. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
- ^ "Ellison and Gomboeva win recurve titles at Archery World Cup". www.insidethegames.biz. 23 May 2021. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
- ^ "Bangladesh aims for first World Cup gold today". Dhaka Tribune. 23 May 2021. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
- ^ "Bangladesh in mixed final of Archery World Cup". The Daily Star. 20 May 2021. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
