“They didn’t know about us before the heat but after I finished my run, they were surprised to know that Bangladesh also have sprinters. Some even asked me if Bangladesh are a country of sprinters,” said Jahir.“The coaches helped me a lot. I did some extra practise of my own, sometimes at night in my room. I had to work hard for this achievement,” added the BKSP athlete following his return home. Bangladesh’s performance in the major regional games – the SA Games – recently has been below average. They failed to win a single medal out of the men’s 20 events in the athletics discipline in the last edition held in India last year.
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Jahir hoped to end the drought. “My first concentration will be the next SA Games. We have not won a medal there for a long time. If I can improve my timing a little bit then I can earn Bangladesh a medal there,” he said, adding that he is also preparing for the next Youth Olympic Games, scheduled to be held in Argentina in 2018.
