Weightlifting looks to lift two SEAG golds<\/p>\n
Moch. N. Kurniawan, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
With several weight classes dropped from the roster and new
\nathletes yet to reach their peak, national weightlifters are
\nunlikely to bring back the five golds of two years ago from this
\nNovember's Southeast Asian (SEA) Games.<\/p>\n
\"We're sending eight athletes but we're only targeting two
\ngolds for the 2005 SEA Games,\" national SEA Games weightlifting
\nteam manager Sonny Lumban Tobing said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Tipped as having the strongest chance of gold are Shinta
\nDarmariani, 19, in the women's 75 kilograms division and Sandow
\nNasution, 23, in the men's 85 kilograms.<\/p>\n
\"Shinta has passed the 2003 SEA Games gold winning mark of
\n202.5 kilograms with a lift of 203 kilograms in practice, which
\nmeans she has a great chance to win gold,\" Sonny said.<\/p>\n
\"For Sandow, with his total lift of 330 kilograms, he has no
\nreal competitors.\"<\/p>\n
All of the country's golds in Vietnam were contributed by male
\nlifters, but none of them -- Yadi (56 kg), Gustar Yunianto (62
\nkg), Misdan (69 kg), Erwin Abdullah (77 kg), and Yudi Suhartono
\n(85 kg) -- are on the team this time.<\/p>\n
Favorites in the women's division are Thailand and Myanmar,
\nwhile Thailand and Vietnam are expected to clean up in the men's.<\/p>\n
Athens Olympic silver medalist Lisa Rumbewas is one victim of
\nthe reduction in medal events. She has moved up to 58 kg after
\nthe Philippine organizers did away with the 53 kg class.<\/p>\n
\"This situation forces Lisa to compete with stronger lifters
\nfrom Thailand and Myanmar, thus diminishing her chance to win
\ngold,\" he said of the 25 year old.<\/p>\n
Other team members -- women's 69 kg lifter Beti Feriani, 20,
\nmen's 69 kg lifter Mesdan Yunip, 29, Bayu Apriliawan (men's 94
\nkg), 17, Reinaldi (men's 105 kg), 21, and Dedi Aprianto (men's
\n+105kg), 17, -- would do well to medal based on their current
\nform.<\/p>\n
Mesdan, he added, would have been a strong gold medal
\ncontender but for an abdominal injury.<\/p>\n
Two women lifters -- Citra Febrianti, who is pregnant, and Ani
\nSuprapti -- were dropped from the national squad for the Games.<\/p>\n
\"We cannot prohibit a woman from getting married and having a
\nchild so we were forced to remove Citra from the team,\" Sonny
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
\"Ani Suprapti, on the other hand, failed to show her best form
\nduring training with a total lift of 204 kilograms, far below her
\nbest of 212 kilograms in the 2004 National Games,\" he said.<\/p>\n
The 10-class weightlifting competition will be held from Dec.
\n1 to Dec. 4 at the Bacolod City Convention Center.<\/p>\n
\"The venue is quite comfortable as the hotel and location of
\nthe weightlifting are the same,\" he said.<\/p>",
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