Bangladesh shooter wins silver

Sports Desk: Bangladeshi shooter Md Rabbi Hasan Munna bagged silver medal at the 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games on Saturday.

Rabbi finished behind Turkey’s Omer Akgun in the men’s 10-metre air rifle final at Baku in Azerbaijan.

The Turk, who finished second in the 2016 World Cup, scored an impressive 249.8 points to dominate a tightly-contested final.

Omer finished ahead of silver medalist Md Rabbi Hasan Munna with 245.5 points while Uzbekistan's Sadkhan Sayfuddinov took the bronze with 224.1 points.

A 49-member Bangladesh contingent participated in the 4th Islamic Solidarity Games in Azerbaijan capital Baku from May 12-22.


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