SEA Games sharpshooters go for overseas stint

SEA Games sharpshooters go for overseas stint

JAKARTA (JP): National sharp shooters, training for the 19th
SEA Games, will go to Taiwan for a series of trials from Aug. 21
to Aug. 29.

Twenty-five SEA Games sharpshooters are expected to improve
their skills through a series of overseas matches before the
regional Games here in October.

Included in the team are Inca Fery, Yuniarti Ilyas, Shilla
Prasasti and Suparni who are training for the women's air rifle
individual and team events.

For the men's individual and team free pistol events, the
Indonesian Shooting Association has been training Soleh, Sutadi
and A. Mauludi.

Before the Taiwan trials, they took part in matches in South
Korea between Aug. 10 and Aug. 18.

Several double trap shooters will also compete in the Asian
Clay championships in Brunei Darussalam this month.

Indonesia's sharpshooters will have to work hard to win golds
in the shooting events because at the seventh Kapolri Cup at the
end of July, their scores were way below the Games record.

National Sports Council chairman Wismoyo Arismunandar called
on all athletes to work hard to reclaim the overall title
Indonesia lost to Thailand in 1995.

"Overseas competitions are good tests for the national
marksmen and markswomen before they represent their country in
the coming SEA Games," he said after briefing the sharpshooters
yesterday.

Wismoyo also told the association to prepare junior athletes
for the coming SEA Games.

Preparations are also underway at the Indonesian Billiards
Association.

The association is preparing 30 athletes for the Games in four
billiards events.

To improve their performance, they were sent overseas for
matches in Brunei Darussalam in December last year, and Japan and
Malaysia in January.

Some Indonesian billiard players will also go to Utrecht, in
the Netherlands on Aug. 25 to take part in an overseas training
program.

They are Roby Suwarli, Imron and Jimmy Arianto. (03)