Supriati to race in Europe for Olympics ticket<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Women's long-distance runner Supriati Sutono
\nwill compete in a tournament in Europe before taking part in the
\nAsian Track and Field Championships at Senayan Madya Stadium
\nlater in July to earn a ticket to the 2000 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n
KONI vice chairman and Olympics training director Arie Sudewo
\ntold reporters after a meeting on Wednesday that Supriati had a
\nbigger chance of qualifying for the Olympics than the other two
\nathletes, pole vaulter Nunung Jayadi and women's long jumper
\nNyoman Rae Trisandiana.<\/p>\n
Supriati managed to surpass the Olympics time limit class B of
\n15:55.00 in the 5,000m when she ran for 15:54.45 in the 1998
\nAsian Games in Bangkok. \"However, SOCOG only acknowledges the
\nachievement produced from January 1999 to Sept. 11, 2000,\" he
\nsaid, referring to the Sydney Organizing Committee of the Olympic
\nGames.<\/p>\n
Arie also said he would meet officials of the Indonesian
\nArchery Association (Perpani) to ask the core team to participate
\nin the 2000 Olympics in Sydney in September.<\/p>\n
\"We will meet Perpani officials tomorrow (Thursday). We want
\nto know who will replace Purnama, either Lilies Handayani or
\nRosena Gelanteh,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Purnama has to quit the training program for the Olympics due
\nto pregnancy. The three other women's archers who attend the
\ntraining program -- Hamdiah, Lusia Elizabeth Sumampow and I Gusti
\nAyuputu Wulan -- performed poorly in the 2000 National Games
\n(PON) in Surabaya last month.<\/p>\n
Hamdiah, who has qualified in the FITA's individual event,
\nonly managed a bronze in the Olympic version of the FITA round
\nand a silver in the women's individual 40m range of the national
\nround. Her teammates, Lusia and Purnama, performed better to win
\na gold each.<\/p>\n
Senior archer Lilies Handayani, a former silver medalist in
\nthe team event in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, collected three
\ngolds in the FITA round and two golds from national round for
\nEast Java. Rosena of West Java netted one gold in the FITA round
\nand three golds in the national round.<\/p>\n
South Korean archery coach Lee Jae-hyung said that Rusena's
\nachievement was better than Lilies. \"But we will decide in a
\nmeeting which archer will be picked up to join the training
\nprogram,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Arie said that there would be no selection procedure for
\nLilies and Rosena.<\/p>\n
Arie said Olympics swimming qualifiers had to train at the
\nHilton Hotel as the Senayan pool had been polluted by soccer fans
\nof Arema Malang.<\/p>\n
\"But the problem is that the Hilton's pool is only 48 meters
\nlong or less 2 meters than the international standard size of
\n50m,\" he said. (ivy)<\/p>",
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