Ruman Shana

Mohammad Ruman Shana (Bengali: রোমান সানা; born 8 June 1995) is a Bangladeshi archer. He won the bronze medal in recurve single's event of 2019 World Archery Championships and became the first Bangladeshi archer in history to win a medal in the competition.^[1] He lived in Khulna.^[2] But now he left Bangladesh and settled in USA after taking retirement at just 28 due to a clash with the coach and the federation.^[3] Shana won gold in the men's singles recurve category at the 2019 Asia Cup in the Philippines.^[4]

Ruman Shana

Personal information
Full name	Mohammad Ruman Shana
Nickname	M.R. Shana
Nationality	Bangladeshi
Born	(1995-06-08) 8 June 1995 (age 30) Koyra Upazila, Khulna, Bangladesh
Spouse	Diya Siddique ​ (m. 2023)​
Sport
Country	Bangladesh
Sport	Archery
Event	Recurve
Coached by	Martin Frederick
Achievements and titles
Highest world ranking	10 (16 September 2019)
Medal record Men's archery Representing  Bangladesh Event 1st 2nd 3rd World Championships 0 0 1 World Cup 0 1 0 Asian Championships 0 0 1 Islamic Solidarity Games 0 0 1 Asia Cup 1 1 1 South Asian Games 3 0 0 Total 4 2 4 World Championships 2019 's-Hertogenbosch Individual recurve World Cup 2021 Lausanne Mixed team recurve Asian Championships 2021 Dhaka Team recurve Islamic Solidarity Games 2021 Konya Team recurve Asia Cup 2019 Clark City Individual recurve 2019 Clark City Team recurve 2019 Clark City Mixed team recurve South Asian Games 2019 Pokhara Individual recurve 2019 Pokhara Team recurve 2019 Pokhara Mixed team recurve
Updated on 25 June 2025

Early life

Ruman born to the family of Abdul Gafur Shana and Beauty Begom and passed his childhood at Koyra village in Khulna. He used to play with arrow-bow made by bamboo during his school days. In an interview with BDnews24, he said that he was not much attentive to his school, instead, he used to remain busy playing football. However, he later opted to try his hand in archery when he was a student of class eight.^[5]

Career

Ruman won the gold medal in the First Asian Grand Prix 2014 in Bangkok, Thailand.^[6] He won another gold medal in the International Archery Tournament 2017, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.^[7]

In 2019, he won three international medal with first one- a silver medal- came in the ISSF International Solidarity Archery Championships. After that, he won a bronze in the 2019 World Archery Championships, and later, Roman won a gold medal in the Asia Cup ranking tournament.^[8]

23 May 2021, he along with Diya Siddique claimed silver medal in the recurve mixed team event during the 2021 Archery World Cup where Bangladesh emerged as runners-up to Netherlands in the final.^[9][10] Despite losing the final 5–1, it was the best performance by Bangladesh at an Archery World Championship.^[11] It also marked the first instance whereas Bangladesh managed to reach final in an event of Archery World Cup.^[12]