Aprilia earns Olympics ticket

Aprilia earns Olympics ticket

JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia's judoka Aprilia Marzuki finished in
fourth place in the women's 70 kilograms division at the Asian
Judo Championships in Osaka Japan.

In the bronze medal playoff, Aprilia had to bow out to Chinese
Liang Zhachia Saturday while the winner in the division was Ueno
of Japan.

However, Aprilia still earned the ticket to qualify for the
Olympic Games in Sydney in September.

Antara reported two male judokas of Kresna Bayu and Johannes
Taslim failed to fulfill their ambition of qualifying in the
quadrennial event. Bayu, competing in the 90kgs division, lost in
koka at the quarterfinals against Xu Zhiming of China, despite
being trained in Japan for nearly two months.

Taslim, fighting in the 73kgs division, was beaten in the
first round by Kot Siu of Hong Kong. (yan)