Shahana Parveen
Kazi Shahana Parveen (born 1 July 1960)[1] is a Bangladeshi shooter who participated in the 1992 Summer Olympics in the Women's 10 metre air rifle event,[1] 1994 Asian Games and 1998 Commonwealth Games. She was the first woman to represent Bangladesh at the Olympics.[2]
Career
[edit]At the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona, Parveen represented Bangladesh in the Women's 10 metre air rifle event but failed to qualify for the final round. In the qualifying round she obtained 379 points and finished at 43rd place.[1] Two years later, Parveen competed at the Hiroshima Asian Games. She participated in the 10 metre air rifle, 50 metre rifle 3 positions and 50 metre rifle prone events and secured 27th, 14th and 26th positions respectively but could not qualify for the finals of any of these.[3] In 1998, she paired with Sabrina Sultana for the women's free rifle prone pairs at the 1998 Commonwealth Games and finished in the eighth position.[4][self-published source?]
Parveen was the manager for Bangladeshi women's team at the 2008 Indo-Bangla Games.[5] She is among the 10 recipients of the 1999 Bangladeshi National Sports Awards.[6] In 2016, she was honoured by the Bangladesh Sports Press Association.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Shahana Parveen". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
- ^ "First female competitors at the Olympics by country". Olympedia. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
- ^ "Parveen, Kazi Shahana". International Shooting Sport Federation. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
- ^ Groom, Graham (17 October 2017). The Complete Book of the Commonwealth Games. Lulu.com. p. 281. ISBN 978-0-244-94031-7.
- ^ "Indo-Bangla Games briefs". The Daily Star. 13 February 2008. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
- ^ "Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Sports Award 1999". Bangla2000. 14 December 2000. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
- ^ "BSPA to honour 18 gold medalist sportswomen". The New Nation. 14 April 2016. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
External links
[edit]- Shahana Parveen at Olympedia
- Shahana Parveen at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
- Shahana Parveen at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
