Indonesia wins only bronze on day nine
Novan Iman Santosa, The Jakarta Post, Busan, South Korea
Cycling contributed a bronze medal, the only medal for Indonesia on Day nine of the Busan 2002 Asian Games on Monday, when cyclist Santia Tri Kusuma finished third at the women's 24-kilometer points race event at the Geumjeon Velodrome in the Geumjeon Sports Complex here.
Santia collected a total of 21 points while host Kim Yong-mi grabbed 38 points for the gold medal and Ayumu Otsuka of Japan won the silver with 31.
"I am very happy that I could contribute a medal to the contingent," said Santia after the match.
"It is just too bad that Uyun was feeling sick and she could not do much today." Santia said, referring to teammate Uyun Muzizah who was ill during the race and could only finish ninth.
Coach Wahyudi Hidayat, however, said that Uyun's poor health had allowed Santia to go unnoticed.
"Other cyclists, especially from China always kept their eyes on Uyun during the race unaware of her illness.
"They were carried away by Uyun's slow pace leaving Santia to speed up and grab the bronze medal."
Earlier, Uyun had provided Indonesia with two silver medals from the women's individual road race and 3-kilometer individual time trial events.
Meanwhile, Indonesian cyclists Teguh Eko Pambudi, Kohar, Rochmat Nugraha and Suwandra failed to grab any medals in the men's 4-kilometer team pursuit.
Separately in Busan's Yachting Center, the windsurfing organizing committee decided to cancel the seventh race citing "mistakes on buoy placements" at the men's heavy mistral event.
On Monday the organizers planned to make up the seventh race and squeeze in the eighth as well.
The seventh race was initially slated for Sunday, but it was postponed until Monday because of heavy rain all day.
I Gusti Made Oka Sulaksana, however, kept his lead after collecting the least penalties -- seven points -- after the seventh of the scheduled 11 races.
Following Oka were Chinese Mo Zhehai and Japanese Kenzo Motokazu with 12 and 15 penalty points respectively.
Another Indonesian windsurfer, Fadly Faisal was in last place in the men's light board event after 38 penalty points.