Harry and Nemo to be the first RI Olympic competitors
Harry and Nemo to be the first RI Olympic competitors
JAKARTA (JP): Lifter Harry Setiawan and bantamweight Nemo
Bahari will be the first Indonesian athletes to compete at the
Atlanta Olympic Games from July 19 to Aug. 4.
Harry, who will compete in the 54kg category, will begin his
medal campaign on July 20, one day after the Games open. On the
same day, Nemo, two-time best boxer of the President Cup
international amateur boxing championships, will take on his
opponent at the Alexander Memorial Coliseum in Atlanta, Antara
reported yesterday.
Indonesian male swimmer Richard Sam Bera is scheduled to
compete on July 22 in the 100m freestyle category and on July 25
in the 50m. Also on July 22, surfer Oka Sutalaksana will compete
in the men's mistral event.
On July 23, the beach male volleyball team of Nurmufid and
Markoji and their female counterparts, Ni Putu Timi and Engel
Bertha Kaisei, will have their turn.
Also on July 23, light middleweight Hendrik Simangunsong and
flyweight Hermensen Ballo will try to survive the first round.
Their teammate, lightweight La Paene Masara, will lock horns on
July 26.
The fifth day of the Games, July 24, will see Indonesia's
world No. 1 shuttlers starting in both the men's and women's
singles qualifying rounds. One day later, the men's and women's
doubles qualifying round will follow. The mixed doubles events
will begin on July 26. The finals for all badminton events will
begin on July 31.
Male table tennis player Anton Suseno and his female teammate
Rosy Dipoyanti will also start on the same day with their
shuttler compatriots.
A day later, on July 25, Indonesia's top tennis player, Yayuk
Basuki, and her Federation Cup doubles partner, Romana
Tejakusuma, will be in action.
The archery event, which gave Indonesia its first-ever Olympic
medal at the Seoul Olympics in 1988, will see Indonesia's female
archery team of Nurfitriyana, Dahliana and Hamdiah beginning
their individual efforts to grab an Olympic medal. The event will
begin on July 28 and last until Aug. 2. The women's archery team
will try to regain the silver medal it earned in Seoul.
Female long-distance runner Ethel Hudson, the only Indonesian
athlete scheduled to participate in the track and field contests,
will appear on the Games' last day, Aug. 4.
Indonesia will field a total of 39 athletes in 10 sports.
(arf)