Candra, Tony, Lisa win Bola's Awards

Candra, Tony, Lisa win Bola's Awards

JAKARTA (JP): Men's doubles shuttlers Candra Wijaya and Tony
Gunawan and women's weightlifter Lisa Rumbewas won the 2000 Best
Athlete Award conferred by Bola sports tabloid on Saturday to
commemorate its 17th anniversary.

The sports awards ceremony was broadcasted live by RCTI
private channel.

Candra and Tony earned 1,213 votes leading other nominees such
as bodybuilder Ade Rai who won the 2000 Musclemania, soccer
player Gendut Doni who scored the most goals at the Anniversary
Cup and Tiger Cup, Sydney Olympic's men's singles silver medalist
Hendrawan and chess Grand Master Utut Adianto.

Sydney silver medalist Lisa received 1,197 votes. Other
nominees were rock climber Etti Hendrawati who won the Summer X
Games in San Francisco and the Asian Pacific X Games in Thailand,
karateka Meisya Karmajaya who won the gold medal at the Shotokan
Junior World Championship and taekwondoin Rahadani Neta who
grabbed a title in the Korean Open taekwondo championships.

Indonesia's Thomas Cup team received 992 votes to take the
Best Team Award, outdoing Indonesia's contract bridge team who
took the 2000 world champion, the karate team which reached the
fourth place in the ITKF World Championship, and the junior chess
team which grabbed the bronze medal at the Merdeka Cup in Kuala
Lumpur.

For the Best Coach Award, Herry Imam Pierngadi grabbed the
title with 702 votes. Other contenders were South Korean
taekwondo head coach Oh Il-nam, weightlifter coach Lukman and
junior chess coach Danni Juswanto.

Lisa also received the Most Favorite Female Athlete Award and
Ade Rai got the award in the men's category. Neta won the
Promising Female Athlete Award and junior chess player Andrean
Susilodinata won the award in men's division. (nvn)