SEA Games athletes to compete in world events
SEA Games athletes to compete in world events
JAKARTA (JP): In an effort to further develop their skills
before the 18th Southeast Asian Games, Indonesia is sending its
boxers, female sharp shooters and lady golfers to international
events abroad.
The selected boxers will go to Berlin for the world amateur
championships, the markswomen will join the shooting World Cup in
Chiba, Japan, while the golfers will proceed to Tokyo for the
annual Queen Sirikit Cup women's team competition.
Indonesian Amateur Boxing Association executive director Imron
Z.S. said his team today will fly to Berlin for the championship
from May 6 to 14.
Sixty-five countries, including Indonesia's SEA Games
opponents Thailand and the Philippines, will participate in the
championships.
The Indonesian team is made up of middleweight national
champion Albert Papilaya, a quarterfinalist at the 1992 Barcelona
Olympics, flyweight Rachman Kili-kili and Hiroshima Asian Games
bronze medalist light flyweight Hermensen Ballo.
Hermensen and Rachman both won gold and silver medals
respectively at the March 2-9 King's Cup Amateur Boxing
Championships in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Imron said middleweight Pino Bahari, the 1990 Beijing Asian
Games gold medalist, and his brother featherweight Nemo, bronze
medal winner at Hiroshima Asian Games, will not be joining the
Berlin-bound team and most likely will not strengthen Indonesia's
SEA Games team.
The reason they and their father Daniel gave was that they
have to attend school and work. Imron said the real reason is
that the brothers are controlled by their self-willed father who
always insists on training them himself, rather than allowing
them to join the centralized intensive training programs of the
Indonesian Amateur Boxing Association.
Indonesian Amateur Boxing Association has been grooming 26
boxers, including the three Berlin-bound boxers, since January
for the Dec. 9-17 SEA Games.
A team of three women sharpshooters, led by coach Benny
Mamoto, today will also leave for Chiba, Japan, to take part in
the world shooting controlling body UIT's shotgun World Cup from
May 5 to May 16.
The three, Supadmi, Sarmunah and Sylvia, are all members of
the Army Women's Corps. Supadmi and Sarmunah finished fourth and
fifth respectively in the women's individual clay double trap 120
targets at last year's Hiroshima Asian Games.
They will take part only in the double trap event (shooting
two targets using a .12 caliber shotgun filled with two bullets)
at which they excel.
Led by non-playing captain Ninik Hartono, Retno Mustari, Ani
Iman and Jamila will fly to Narashino near Tokyo to take part in
the Queen Sirikit Cup amateur golf tournament from May 24 to 26.
Strong teams from New Zealand, Australia and defending
champion South Korea have already confirmed their entry, said
Ninik. The other teams come from China, Japan, Thailand,
Singapore and the Philippines.
Ninik, who is in charge of women's and juniors' training
section of the Indonesia Golf Association said they will play 18
holes each day during the three-day championships.
In a similar championship last year at the Bumi Serpong Damai
course near Jakarta, Retno, Ani and Eli Mulani finished sixth
behind South Korean which took the gold medal. (arf)