PGSI to send wrestlers to international meet

PGSI to send wrestlers to international meet

JAKARTA (JP): With a new chief at the helm, the Indonesian
Wrestling Association (PGSI) announced a new era of training and
achievement during which it will frequently send its wrestlers to
compete in international competitions.

Antara quoted PGSI executive chairman Endro Soemardjo as
saying that Attorney General Andi Muhammad Ghalib, the newly
installed chairman of PGSI, also would improve the domestic
championships to boost athlete development.

"We are preparing a new concept of training and athlete
development which will raise our athletes' achievements not only
in southeast Asia but in Asia and the world as well," he said.

"We will double the number of our domestic championships from
two to four next year. We will have cadet, junior, senior and
national championships," he said.

He said PGSI would send two senior wrestlers, Supriyadi and
Chaidir, to the Asian Wrestling Championships in Tashkent,
Uzbekistan, from May 24 to May 26.

The association expects the wrestlers to win at least bronze
medals, matching their results in the same event held in
Pakistan, he said.

Endro also said the association had invited two foreign
coaches from South Korea and Japan to help train the national
wrestlers.

"We are planning to hold coaching clinics for local trainers
to improve their quality. The foreign coaches might become the
instructors (at the clinics)," he said.

He said that on the national level, cadet wrestlers from six
PGSI provincial chapters would take part in an open-championship
starting on Saturday. Ghalib is expected to open the championship
in Sukabumi, West Java. (ivy)