Dhaka: Bangladesh’s fastest man Mesbah Ahmed will carry the national flag in the march past of the 45-nation 22nd Asian Athletics Championships beginning on Thursday (July 4) in the Indian city Bhubaneswar in Odisha. 

An 18-member Bangladesh Athletics team, now in Bhubaneswar for taking a two-week long training ahead of the heavy weight Asian meet, will look forward to gathering experience for the upcoming13th South Asian Games scheduled for Nepal in 2019.

Bangladesh Athletics team for Asian Championship: Mesbah Ahmed, Kazi Shah Imran, Shariful Islam, Abdur Rouf, Masud Rana, Ismail Hossain, Masud Khan, Khondakar Kibria, Kamrul Islam, Sajjad Hossain, Mahfuzur Rahman, Hedayet Hossain, Al Amin, Alamgir Hossain, Shohagi Akhter, Susmita Ghose Sumi Akhter and Jesmin Akhter