Bangladesh Olympic Association (BOA) today announced a prize pool worth Tk 73 lakhs for the winners of the upcoming BOA Marathon 2024 to be held on December 20 at the Jalshiri Abashon Project in Purbachal, Dhaka.
The BOA also decided to reward Tk 50 lakh to the Bangladesh women’s team for winning the SAFF Women's Championship title for the second consecutive time. It was also decided that the reward would be handed over in a programme in Cox’s Bazar where the Bangladesh Army would also handover Tk 50 lakh to the champion team.
The scenario raises questions about the selection process and effectiveness of the scholarship programme in improving athletes' performance on the global stage.
Bangladesh Olympic Association (BOA) today disbursed cash reward worth Tk 15 lakh each to Bangladesh men’s and women’s cricket teams for winning bronze medals in the Hangzhou Asian Games.
In her field, Bangladesh’s table tennis icon Zobera Rahman Linu remained a cut above the rest during her stellar 24-year playing career between 1977 to 2001, having bagged a whopping 16 national titles from 1977 to 2001
Despite the introduction of the Bangladesh Youth Games, the nation is still apparently dwelling in the “something is better than nothing” era when it comes to forging a proper pipeline for athletes.
Mashrafe Hossain Maruf, the sixth semester student of Dinajpur Polytechnique Institute, had won two silver medals and a bronze medal representing Rangpur Division.
Bangladesh have just concluded another campaign in the Commonwealth Games but the athletes hardly drew any attention from the country’s sports fraternity after again failing to perform on a big platform.
After working with the country’s budding gymnasts for over two months, Korean coach Cho Sung Dong realised that Bangladeshi gymnasts and the coaches not only lack basic techniques but also trail in their thought processes toward the game.
The Bangladesh Olympic Association (BOA) is expecting at least one gold medal in the shooting discipline of the upcoming 4th Islamic Solidarity Games, scheduled to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan from May 12 to 22.
The elections of the Bangladesh Olympic Association (BOA) will be held today at the BOA House with some 80 councillors voting the office bearers. The polls will open at 9:00am.
The Bangladesh Olympic Association (BOA) express its concern over noncooperation of coaching staff towards swimming coach Park Tae Gun, who helped Bangladesh win two gold medals in the South Asian Games held in India in February.
An official Indian delegation is currently in Dhaka for the promotion of 12th South Asian Games, scheduled to be held in Guwahati and Shillong from February 6 to 16, 2016.
