Malaysia's Allay Ong named ASC president

Malaysia's Allay Ong named ASC president

JAKARTA (JP): Allay Ong of Malaysia took a unanimous vote to
win the chair of the Asian Shooting Federation (ASC) for the next
four years in Kuta, Bali, on Friday night.

All 20 delegates participating in the election favored Ong's
succeeding Indonesian Edi Sudradjat.

ASC limits a president to serving only one four-year term.

The election was the main focus of the agenda of the ASC
country members now gathering in the capital for the eighth Asian
Shooting Championships. Edi, who also chairs the Indonesian
Shooting Association, is scheduled to open the week-long event at
the Senayan shooting range today.

The competitions will start tomorrow. Most of them will be
held at the Senayan shooting range, except for skeet and trap
events, which will be staged at Cilodong, West Java.

Athletes from all of the confederation's 28 country members
are expected to join the biennial event. Southeast Asian
countries will use the Oct. 2-Oct. 9 meet as their proving
ground, before entering the 18th Southeast Asian Games in Chiang
Mai in December.

Ong's selection to ASC's top job will take the next shooting
meet to Malaysia in 1997.

"We stand behind Malaysia since we rest big hopes on the
country to continue our everlasting efforts to improve Southeast
Asian standards in this continental event," Edi said after the
election. "The northern region has dominated the championships
too long."

Edi, who is also minister of defense, suggested the new ASC
leaders think of amending some of the organization's outdated
rulings.

The congress, led by ASC Secretary-General Fung Lok Nam of
Singapore, also elected four vice presidents, nine executive
committee members, three judge committee members and two ladies
committee members.

The four new vice presidents are Kuo Ching Sing of Chinese
Taipei, Kim Nam-koo of South Korea, Naboru Kikuchi of Japan and
Wu Baoling of China.

Three Indonesians were included in the confederation's new
leadership board, with Hariyanto Soeprapto named member of the
executive committee, Lely Sampoerna appointed judge committee
member and Sita Hazni joining the ladies committee.

As of yesterday, 10 had teams arrived here for the
championships, which serve as the qualifying round for the
shooting competition at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. (amd)