Sports in bangladesh

Prof. Muhammad ShahiduzzamanHead, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology,

Dhaka Medical College Hospital,Dhaka, Bangladesh

Traditional Sports

"dariabandha", "gollachut", "satchara", "borofpani", "birinchi", "kutkut", "kanamachi", "tillo", "Sologuti", "Bagh-chagol" etc are still popular in sub-urban and rural areas.

Kabbadi

Kabbadi, the only international traditional sports in Bangladesh

Cricket

Cricket, the popular sports show in Bangladesh.

Cricket…

Bangladesh is 10th test playing nation since 2000.

Cricket…

Bangladesh was the co-host of ICC Cricket world cup 2011

Football

Football is still popular. We won 2003 SAFF football and Gold in South Asian Games in 2010

Olympics

Bangladesh competed seven Olympic Games including the first time at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Asian Games

Bangladesh participating in Asian games since1986. Won first gold medal in Cricket in 16th Asian Games 2010 at Guangzhou, China

Commonwealth Games

Bangladesh have competed at six Commonwealth Games, with the first in 1978.We won first gold in CWG in shooting 1990.

South Asian Games

Bangladesh hosted three SA games, with the last one in 2010.We won 63 gold medals in 12 SA Games including football.

Special Olympics

Bangladesh Appeared in Special Olympic World Summer Games in 1995 for the first time and won six golds, seven silvers and another seven bronze medals.

Women in Sports

Girls are on the sports like the boys!

Sports Schooling

Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protishtan (BKSP) is National Sports school with outstanding achievements.

Sports Medicine

BISS is working hard to establish a state of the art sports Medicine center.