The pair which won Silver medal in the World Archery at Lausanne a couple of months ago continued their wonderful run
Bangladeshi archers Ruman Shana and Diya Siddiqui reached the round of 16 in the mixed team event of the archery in the Tokyo Olympic 2020 on Friday to keep the hopes of maiden medal in the history of the games for the country.
The pair which won Silver medal in the World Archery at Lausanne a couple of months ago continued their wonderful run as they beat higher ranked duos from Canada, Malaysia, Brazil and Moldova, among others, to book a ticket in the eliminations, where they will face the favourites in the first round.
“This is really amazing and a happy moment. At first, we were thinking it would be too hard for us. Finally, we’re in the 16th position, and it’s really awesome. We’re feeling so excited and so happy,” said Shana, the individual bronze medallist at the last world championships, to the World Archery website.
“We’re not worried about Korea. We’ll shoot normally and see what happens in the match,” added the poster boy of Bangladesh archery
Korea, USA, Japan, Mexico, China, the Netherlands, Turkey, Chinese Taipei, India, ROC, Italy, Great Britain, Germany, France, Indonesia and Bangladesh made the cut after Friday's qualifying rounds.
The 16th seeds courtesy Ruman Shana’s 662 and Diya Siddique’s 635, Bangladesh was given a women’s universality invitation to these Games, upgrading their single men’s quota, which is what allowed the country to compete in this pairs event.
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Mixed teams are ranked on the combined total of their highest-scoring man and highest-scoring woman.
The mixed team event is making its Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020, bringing the total number of available archery medals to five.
Korea’s An San and Kim Je Deok, two young debutants at the Games, claimed the number one seed, having both topped the individual men’s and women’s qualifying rounds.
Seeds: Recurve mixed teams
Korea: An San/Kim Je Deok
USA: Mackenzie Brown/Brady Ellison
Japan: Yamauchi Azusa/Muto Hiroki
Mexico: Alejandra Valencia/Luis Alvarez
China: Wu Jiaxin/Wang Dapeng
Netherlands: Gaby Schloesser/Steve Wijler
Turkey: Yasemin Anagoz/Mete Gazoz
Chinese Taipei: Lin Chia-En/Tang Chih-Chun
India: Deepika Kumari/Pravin Jadhav
ROC: Ksenia Perova/Galsan Bazarzhapov
Italy: Chiara Rebagliati/Mauro Nespoli
Great Britain: Sarah Bettles/Patrick Huston
Germany: Michelle Kroppen/Florian Unruh
France: Lisa Barbelin/JC Valladont
Indonesia: Diananda Choirunisa/Riau Salsabilla
Bangladesh: Diya Siddique/Ruman Shana
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