South Asian Games kicks off in Kathmandu on Sunday | The Business Standard
Skip to main content
  • Latest
  • Economy
    • Banking
    • Stocks
    • Industry
    • Analysis
    • Bazaar
    • RMG
    • Corporates
    • Aviation
  • Videos
    • TBS Today
    • TBS Stories
    • TBS World
    • News of the day
    • TBS Programs
    • Podcast
    • Editor's Pick
  • World+Biz
  • Features
    • Panorama
    • The Big Picture
    • Pursuit
    • Habitat
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Mode
    • Tech
    • Explorer
    • Brands
    • In Focus
    • Book Review
    • Earth
    • Food
    • Luxury
    • Wheels
  • More
    • Sports
    • TBS Graduates
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • Gallery
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Magazine
    • Climate Change
    • Health
    • Cartoons
  • বাংলা
The Business Standard

Friday
June 13, 2025

Sign In
Subscribe
  • Latest
  • Economy
    • Banking
    • Stocks
    • Industry
    • Analysis
    • Bazaar
    • RMG
    • Corporates
    • Aviation
  • Videos
    • TBS Today
    • TBS Stories
    • TBS World
    • News of the day
    • TBS Programs
    • Podcast
    • Editor's Pick
  • World+Biz
  • Features
    • Panorama
    • The Big Picture
    • Pursuit
    • Habitat
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Mode
    • Tech
    • Explorer
    • Brands
    • In Focus
    • Book Review
    • Earth
    • Food
    • Luxury
    • Wheels
  • More
    • Sports
    • TBS Graduates
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • Gallery
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Magazine
    • Climate Change
    • Health
    • Cartoons
  • বাংলা
FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 2025
South Asian Games kicks off in Kathmandu on Sunday

Sports

TBS Report
30 November, 2019, 10:10 pm
Last modified: 01 December, 2019, 04:36 pm

Related News

  • 14th South Asian Games Rescheduled to November 2025
  • SA games gold medallist shooter Sadia passes away
  • Looking back on the year in sports
  • The girl who foiled her own marriage wins 3 gold in SA Games
  • Now, my dream is to win a medal in the Olympics : Ruman Sana

South Asian Games kicks off in Kathmandu on Sunday

Bangladeshis will take part in 25 disciplines of sports, out of total 26.

TBS Report
30 November, 2019, 10:10 pm
Last modified: 01 December, 2019, 04:36 pm
March-past from the 2016 SA Games (File Photo)  Photo: Twitter
March-past from the 2016 SA Games (File Photo) Photo: Twitter

The 13th South Asian Games, the seven-nation biggest sports extravaganza of the region, begins on Sunday at Dasharath Rangasala Stadium in the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu through a gala opening ceremony.

Nepalese Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli will address the three-and-half-hour inaugural ceremony of the South Asian Games scheduled to be held from December 1-10 at capital Kathmandu, tourist town of Pokhara and Janakpur.

Swimmer Mahfuza Khatun Shila, who won two gold medals in the 12th SA Games in Guwahati, India held in 2016, will bear the national flag of Bangladesh in the opening ceremony of the ensuing SA Games.   

The Business Standard Google News Keep updated, follow The Business Standard's Google news channel

All roads from Kathmandu lead to the historic opening ceremony of 13th South Asian Games 2019, happening on December 1,2019 at the Dashrath Stadium. Excited ? #SAG2019 #13SouthAsianGames#Nepal #Pakistan #Maldives #India #Bangladesh #Bhutan #SriLanka pic.twitter.com/KSLeQEf1Ne— South Asian Games 2019 (@SAG_2019) November 24, 2019

Nepalese capital Kathmandu will host 19 disciplines of sports while Pokhara nine and Janakpur will hold one discipline - wrestling - during the 10-day event to be participated by hosts Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, the Maldives, Bhutan and Sri Lanka.

A total of 3,252 athletes from seven South Asian nations will vie for 324 gold medals, 324 silver medals and 487 bronze medals.

A 621-member contingent will represent Bangladesh in the South Asian Games with a hope to clinch more gold medals than the previous occasions.

Bangladeshis will take part in 25 disciplines of sports, out of total 26.

Nepal, which hosts the South Asian Games after 20 years since 1999, will field the biggest contingent of 648 athletes, followed by Sri Lanka 612, Bangladesh 595, India 521, Pakistan 413, the Maldives 332 and Bhutan 123.

The Bangladesh contingent, except football and cricket teams, trained intensively at home and aboard under BOA from July 15, and the country has good chances in archery, shooting, cricket, football apart from judo, karate and wushu.

Host Nepal is the only country participating in all the 26 disciplines of sports while all the seven countries will play only athletics, badminton, basketball and shooting.
 
Similarly, every country except the Maldives will be participating in boxing, while giants India and Pakistan will not play cricket. The only team not to take part in football is Pakistan.

After Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are the highest participating teams in the games with 25 sports each. Likewise, Pakistan follow Bangladesh on 18 games, India on 17 and Bhutan on 14. The Maldives will play the least games with only 11.

The first batch, headed by Chef de Mission of Bangladesh contingent and BOA Deputy Secretary General Asaduzzaman Kohinoor, left Dhaka for Kathmandu on November 24,  

Bangladesh Women's Cricket team left Dhaka for the Nepalese town of Pokhara on Friday (November 29) while men's cricket team will fly for Kathmandu on December 1.

In the last SA Games in India in 2016, Bangladesh clinched four gold, 15 silver and 56 bronze medals with swimmer Shila winning two gold medals and shooter Shakil Ahmed and lifter Mabia Akhter one each.
 

Others

SA games

Comments

While most comments will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive, moderation decisions are subjective. Published comments are readers’ own views and The Business Standard does not endorse any of the readers’ comments.

Top Stories

  • Infographics: TBS
    Lengthy legal road ahead to repatriate Saifuzzaman's wealth from UK
  • From fact-checker to fact-checked: CA Press Wing’s turn in the hot seat
    From fact-checker to fact-checked: CA Press Wing’s turn in the hot seat
  • Wreckage of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner showing part of its registration "VT-ANB" in Ahmedabad, India, June 12, 2025. REUTERS/Amit Dave
    Air India Dreamliner crashes into Ahmedabad college hostel, kills over 290

MOST VIEWED

  • Keir Starmer declines to meet CA Yunus: FT report
    Keir Starmer declines to meet CA Yunus: FT report
  • Wreckage of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner showing part of its registration "VT-ANB" in Ahmedabad, India, June 12, 2025. REUTERS/Amit Dave
    Air India Dreamliner crashes into Ahmedabad college hostel, kills over 290
  • Saifuzzaman Chowdhury. Photo: Collected
    UK crime agency now freezes assets of ex-land minister Saifuzzaman: AJ
  • File Photo of Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus: UNB
    Prof Yunus to receive Harmony Award from King Charles today
  • Infofgraphics: TBS
    DGHS issues 11-point directive to prevent spread of Covid-19 in Bangladesh
  • Bangladesh Bank Governor Ahsan H Mansur. TBS Sketch
    Bangladesh mulls settlements with tycoons over offshore wealth: BB governor tells FT

Related News

  • 14th South Asian Games Rescheduled to November 2025
  • SA games gold medallist shooter Sadia passes away
  • Looking back on the year in sports
  • The girl who foiled her own marriage wins 3 gold in SA Games
  • Now, my dream is to win a medal in the Olympics : Ruman Sana

Features

Among pet birds in the country, lovebirds are the most common, and they are also the most numerous in the haat. Photo: Junayet Rashel

Where feathers meet fortune: How a small pigeon stall became Dhaka’s premiere bird market

1d | Panorama
Illustration: Duniya Jahan/ TBS

Forget Katy Perry, here’s Bangladesh’s Ruthba Yasmin shooting for the moon

2d | Features
File photo of Eid holidaymakers returning to the capital from their country homes/Rajib Dhar

Dhaka: The city we never want to return to, but always do

3d | Features
Photo collage shows political posters in Bagerhat. Photos: Jannatul Naym Pieal

From Sheikh Dynasty to sibling rivalry: Bagerhat signals a turning tide in local politics

5d | Bangladesh

More Videos from TBS

Banks' estimates were wrong: Bangladesh Bank spokesperson

Banks' estimates were wrong: Bangladesh Bank spokesperson

7h | Podcast
What exactly happened to the ill-fated Boeing aircraft?

What exactly happened to the ill-fated Boeing aircraft?

9h | TBS World
Govt to set up Debt Office as loan burden to hit Tk29 lakh cr by FY28

Govt to set up Debt Office as loan burden to hit Tk29 lakh cr by FY28

9h | TBS Insight
Curfew imposed for second night in Los Angeles

Curfew imposed for second night in Los Angeles

10h | TBS World
EMAIL US
contact@tbsnews.net
FOLLOW US
WHATSAPP
+880 1847416158
The Business Standard
  • About Us
  • Contact us
  • Sitemap
  • Advertisement
  • Privacy Policy
  • Comment Policy
Copyright © 2025
The Business Standard All rights reserved
Technical Partner: RSI Lab

Contact Us

The Business Standard

Main Office -4/A, Eskaton Garden, Dhaka- 1000

Phone: +8801847 416158 - 59

Send Opinion articles to - oped.tbs@gmail.com

For advertisement- sales@tbsnews.net