South Sumatra wins first gold medal as PON opens
South Sumatra wins first gold medal as PON opens
The Jakarta Post, Palembang
Host South Sumatera grabbed its first gold medal at the
National Games (PON)'s while Jakarta stayed on the top of
standings on the eve of the opening ceremony of the National
Games at the Sriwijaya Stadium here on Thursday.
Bido Angkasa and Taqwa earned the hosts their first gold medal
after they scored the highest points in the men's team's
precision landing of the paragliding competition at the Sekayu
airport, 126 west of the town.
Bido and Taqwa scored a total of 3754.661 points, followed by
Jakarta's Darmansyah and Eddy Hartono with a combined 3681.206
points and Rusyanto and Suparno of East Java
2778.596 points.
In the individual event, Bido only managed to grab a silver
medal with 1953.121 points. The gold went to Central Java's
Hawari who scored 1956.956 points.
Darmansyah Sahurera of Jakarta seized a bronze with 1950.451
points.
The last gold in the paragliding will be on offer in the
duration flight on Friday.
Vera Haryanto collected a gold medal for Jakarta after
clocking the best time of 21.40 seconds in the women's 50-meter
surface final of the fin-diving competition.
The victory left host diver Catrine Kalalo in disappointment.
The local hopeful, who managed to set up a new national record
with her 21.35 seconds en route to the final, clocked 21.46
seconds in the final to be content with a silver.
The bronze was grabbed by another Jakartan diver Stephanie
Prima after she registered 22 seconds.
In the men's 50-meter apnea event, North Sumatra's Darwin
grabbed a gold medal after clocking 16.61 seconds while East
Java's Hendro Nyoto Mulyo got a silver after clocking 16.71
seconds. Kevin Angga of West Java grabbed a bronze with 17.04
seconds.
West Java ended the Thursday's competition with three gold
medals. Hans Yosaputra won two in the 100-meter and 400-meter
men's immersion events while Nadia Gozali grabbed the other in
the 100-meter women's immersion.
With the additional gold, Jakarta remained at the top the
medal table with an overall seven gold medals. West Java followed
in second place with four gold medals.
Sixteen out of forty one sports being competed in the Games
will start their competition on Friday.
Those sports are aerosports, aquatics, fencing, baseball,
bowling, rowing, judo, shooting, archery, rock-climbing, pencak
silat, sepak takraw, table tennis, boxing and wushu and tarung
drajat, an Indonesian martial art, which makes its debut in the
current Games.
However, the details as to which sports will already have
offered medals were unavailable with members of the organizing
committee tended to ping pong information seekers.
Several contact persons said they did not know what events
would be held on the next day claiming that they had not received
detail about information in question.