Demonstration competition of BD gymnasts concludes

BSS, Dhaka :
A five-member of Bangladesh junior gymnastics team will participate in the Asian Junior Gymnastics Championship scheduled to be held from June 9-12 in Singapore.
The Bangladesh team has already completed the final preparations for the tournament.
Ahead of the upcoming tournament, the Bangladesh Gymnastics Federation (BGF) organised a two-day demonstration competition which was concluded on Wednesday at the National Sports Council gymnasium in the city.

Talking to BSS, team’s Korean Coach Cho Song Dong said this competition was basically organised with an aim to dispel fear of mind among the young gymnasts who have no international experience.

The six gymnasts have been selected for the tournament and they showed their skills in front of the judges and also in presence of the top officials of the federation. Cash prizes were also given to the winners’.

In the competition, Mongching Pru Tripura emerged top position, Prenthai Rowe and Md. Rafeel Ahmed finished second and third position respectively.
Besides, Rajeev Chakma, Menton Tony and Wuhaimong Marma finished fourth, fifth and sixth position respectively. Apart from Rafeel of Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Prothistan (BKSP), who got the third place, all the rests are hailed from Bandarban Quantum Cosmo School and College.

All the participants will leave for Singapore on June 6. Five of them will participate in the competition while one has been kept as standby.
After the competition, BGF’s president Sheikh Bashir Ahmed Mamun handed over the prize to the winners while its general secretary Ahmedur Rahman Bablu was present.
For the last 11 months, the gymnasts have been practicing under the Korean coach Cho Song Dong. At the moment, the tournament in Singapore is the priority, but Bangladesh’s goal is far-reaching. Bangladesh aims to win a medal in the Olympics after the next year’s Paris Olympics.

BGF’s general secretary Ahmedur Rahman Bablu told BSS that they are eying to reach top eight spot in the upcoming Asian Junior Gymnastics Championship.
Bablu informed that Bangladesh junior gymnastics team will compete in six events — floor exercise, pommel horse, still rings, vaulting table, parallel bars and horizontal bar — in the Asian Gymnastics which will be held with the participation of 44 countries.
The team has good possibility to do well in vaulting table and pommel horse events in the championship, the BGF’s general secretary said.