Mishu's dream of flying Bangladesh's flag in Ironman World Championship finally comes true

Mishu Biswas - Additional Deputy Police Commissioner of the Detective Branch, DMP - finally made his dream come true. He was one of the five Bangladeshi flag bearers in the Ironman World Championship in Nice. And he successfully completed all the activities - swimming, cycling, and running - in 13 hours and 41 minutes.

He finished swimming in 1 hour and 33 minutes, then took 8 hours and 2 minutes for cycling and lastly finished running in 3 hours and 49 minutes.

"I am very glad to have completed the world championship.  The dream finally came true," Mishu told The Business Standard (TBS) after conquering the toughest one-day sport. 

Mishu worked hard for three years for this, starting everything from scratch. According to him, it was a 'brutal' race, where even the best of the best suffered. Cycling was the toughest according to him.

"It was a culmination of my three years of hard training. It was a brutal race no doubt. Even the pro athletes suffered a lot,  many athletes had accidents during the very technical and dangerous bike course in cycling."

"The elevation of the bike course was almost 2500m which is very tough and the downhill part was very technical and scary. Moreover,  the scorching heat made the race even tougher," he added.

Mishu is currently in his recovery process and then he will prepare for the next race soon.

2186 athletes from 93 countries participated in the Ironman World Championship, among them five participants represented Bangladesh.

Four out of five Bangladeshi participants finished the race and one participant became sick after swimming and was taken to hospital immediately. 

Arafat was the fastest to finish as he clocked 11 hours 31 minutes and 08 seconds. Arifur Rahman took 13 hours 12 minutes and 23 seconds, and Shubho De finished in 15 hours 28 minutes and 34 seconds.

India, Nepal and Bangladesh qualified from South Asia to take part in the Ironman World Championship in Nice , France.  Mishu ranked 4th among the south Asian in the  Ironman World championship. He also  hold the 2nd position among the Bangladeshi triathlete in 2023 season.  He expressed sincere gratitude to his Sponsor Navana,  Popular Life Insurance and others who have been supporting him for last couple of years.

"It would not be possible to become one of the most  commercially successful  athlete in Bangladesh without the support of my sponsors "  he added. 

Mishu have been playing a critical role in the development of  Bangladesh triathlon club for last few years.  

He served DMP as ADC SPORTS  for more than 2 years, during his tenure Bangladesh police achieved gold,  silver and  bronze in national swimming and cycling competition. His extraordinary performance and achievement  national and International level,  he has got the membership in  Bangladesh Triathlon Association  and become the  sports secretary of Bangladesh Police Service Association.