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Full name | Shamoli Ray | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Narail, Khulna Division, Bangladesh | 5 April 1994||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Bangladesh | ||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Archery | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Compound | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Updated on 24 February 2017 |
Shamoli Ray (born April 5, 1994) is a Bangladeshi competitive archer. [1] At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, she competed as a lone archer for the Bangladeshi team in the women's individual recurve through a tripartite invitation. [2] There, Ray discharged a score of 600 points, 7 perfect tens, and 4 bull's eyes to take the fiftieth spot in the classification stage, before she challenged her opening round bout against the twelfth-seeded Mexican archer Gabriela Bayardo, which abruptly ended her Olympic debut in a severe 0–6 defeat. [3] [4] [5]
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