Gold medals expected in diving

Gold medals expected in diving

JAKARTA (JP): Indonesian divers are expected to once again win gold medals at the upcoming Southeast Asian Games in Thailand, Mochtar Yasin of the Indonesian Diving Association said yesterday.

In the Singapore SEA Games two years ago, Indonesian divers won gold in the men's 3 meter and women's 3 meter events. The upcoming SEA Games offers a total of six medals in the men's and women's 1m, men's and women's 3m and men's and women's 10m platform.

The association has been intensively grooming five female and five male divers since October last year. Yasin said that their chances of representing Indonesia at the Dec. 9-17 SEA Games will depend on their performance at the National Championships, slated for June 21 through 24.

The national diving team has since last February been training under the tutelage of a Chinese Olympic coach, Zhong Shao Zhen, with whom some Chinese world divers such as Go Meng, Tan Liang De and Fu Ming Xia have worked out. (arf)