Bangladeshi archer Shyamoli Roy will play against Gabriela Bayardo of Mexico in the opening round later this week after finishing 53rd out of 64 participants in the recurve bow event's ranking round at the 2016 Rio Olympics in Brazil on Friday.
Shyamoli and Gabriela will take on each other in the round of 64 on Thursday at 12:39am in the women's individual archery event and the winner will move to the round of 32 which no previous Bangladeshi athlete has ever managed before.
With Shyamoli taking the field on Friday night, Bangladesh also began their journey at the Rio Olympics. The 22-year old scored a total of 600 points to take 53rd spot while her Mexican counterpart scored 48 more points (648) to finish 12th in the ranking round.
Shyamoli, hailing from Narail, earlier clinched her best spot in the 2015 Asian Archery in Thailand where she won gold medal in the recurve bow individual event. There, she also put up her best score of 618. This is her maiden appearance in the biggest and most prestigious sporting event of the world and she got into the Olympics through wild-card.
Emdadul Haque Milon took part in the last edition of the Olympics in 2012 London where he crashed out in the first elimination round with a 6-0 defeat against Great Britain's Larry Godfrey. Milon, on Thursday, said it would be a big achievement for Shyamoli if she can improve her ranking in Rio.