RI armwrestlers to join Int'l event

RI armwrestlers to join Int'l event

JAKARTA: Maulana Tirta Wibowo and Didik Tarmidi will represent
Indonesia in the Asia-Pacific Armsport Championships in Guwahati,
India.

The tournament will run from April 15 to April 20. Heavyweight
Maulana, 28, and middleweight Didik, 33, are the defending
champions in their respective classes of a week-long local
armwrestling tournament, aired live every Monday on Indosiar.

"As our international debut, we will be taking part, simply to
seek experience at a high-level competition," Irfan A.R., the
chairman of the Indonesian Armwrestling Association (POPI), told
a media conference here on Sunday.

The other countries taking part at the Asia-Pacific event are
Bangladesh, Britain, China, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Morocco,
Uzbekistan and India.