Angie brightens up awards presentation

Angie brightens up awards presentation

Robert Soelistyo, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Teenage tennis player Angelique "Angie" Widjaja (at the podium)
was the star of the 2002 Indonesian Best Athletes and Coach
Awards presentation on Friday, securing two awards, one in the
best female category and one in the favorite athlete category.

In the best female category, the 19-year-old Angie, who had a
hand in helping the country secure one of its four golds in last
year's Asian Games in Busan, South Korea, defeated 2000 Sydney
Olympic bronze medalist weightlifter Lisa Rumbewas, the 2002
Asian Games cycling silver medalist Uyun Muzizah and Wynne Adiati
Prakusya, one of Angie's fellow tennis players in the 2002 Asian
Games.

In the best male athlete category, badminton player Taufik
Hidayat took the crown defeating popular soccer player Bambang
Pamungkas, two other Asian Games 2002 gold medalists, Oka
Sulaksana of windsurfing and Hasan Basri of karate, and chess
player Cerdas Barus.

Besides his gold in the Busan Asian Games, Taufik also had a
share in Indonesia's victory in last year's Thomas Cup Men's
badminton championship.

Meanwhile, in the best coach category, the winner was soccer's
Bambang Nurdiansyah.

The awards were presented by Bola tabloid in cooperation with
TV7 television station.