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        "id": 1242298,
        "msgid": "angie-2001-best-athlete-polls-1447893297",
        "date": "2002-03-25 00:00:00",
        "title": "Angie 2001 best athlete: Polls",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Angie 2001 best athlete: Polls The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Junior Wimbledon champion Angelique Widjaja was named 2001 best female athlete, while badminton player Hendrawan won the men's category at an award ceremony here on Sunday. Angie, as the 17-year-old tennis player is popularly known, pipped the other four nominees in a lopsided readers' poll conducted by leading national sports tabloid Bola.",
        "content": "<p>Angie 2001 best athlete: Polls<\/p>\n<p>The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n<p>Junior Wimbledon champion Angelique Widjaja was named 2001 best<br>\nfemale athlete, while badminton player Hendrawan won the men&apos;s<br>\ncategory at an award ceremony here on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Angie, as the 17-year-old tennis player is popularly known,<br>\npipped the other four nominees in a lopsided readers&apos; poll<br>\nconducted by leading national sports tabloid Bola.<\/p>\n<p>She took 10,136 of the 12,530 votes to beat cyclist Nurhayati,<br>\nrock-climber Etti Hendrawati, runner Supriati Sutono and pole<br>\nvaulter Ni Putu Desy.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Thank God. And thanks to all those behind my most enjoyable<br>\nyear,&quot; she said after receiving the award during a ceremony<br>\nbroadcast live on RCTI.<\/p>\n<p>Angie&apos;s glory also reflected on her mentor Deddy Tedjamukti,<br>\nwho was awarded the best coach trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Hendrawan snatched the 2001 award to continue the domination<br>\nof badminton players for the last decade since the sports&apos; award<br>\nprogram was incepted in 1988.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old, who pushed fellow shuttlers Tony<br>\nGunawan\/Halim Heriyanto into the second place, said he was<br>\nsurprised at the choice.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The best athlete award should ideally go to a young guy. Now<br>\nthat I have been awarded this at 30, I&apos;m quite surprised. But<br>\nit&apos;s all thanks to our badminton coaches and Bola readers,<br>\nanyway,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the best team honor went to the national cycling<br>\nsquad which contributed 11 gold medals at the Malaysian Southeast<br>\nAsian (SEA) Games.<\/p>\n<p>The squad defeated Jakarta-based soccer team Persija by a<br>\nnarrow margin of votes.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony was attended by officials of the National Sports<br>\nCouncil (KONI), led by Chairman Wismoyo Arismunandar, and<br>\nofficials of KONI-affiliated sports organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Also among the invitees was Russian Women&apos;s Grand Master (WGM)<br>\nAlexandra Kosteniuk, who is currently on an Indonesian tour.<\/p>",
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