WINNERS AGAIN:

WINNERS AGAIN:

President Soeharto congratulates Central Java's
long-distance team leader Suryono (left) after the province won
the Tri Lomba Juang triathlon championship. The awards were
presented yesterday at a ceremony at the Jakarta Convention
Center.

Central Java's 50-man team won the overall title after earning
the highest scores in the race's 17-kilometer cross-country event
and 45-kilometer walking event, its second straight victory after
its 1990 triumph.

East Java denied the defending champion a clean sweep by
winning the race's 8-kilometer run to finish second. Third place
was taken by West Java. The three winning provinces received cash
prizes of Rp 175 million, Rp 150 million and Rp 125 million
respectively.

Held for the first time in 1980, the Tri Lomba Juang team
competition consists of a 17-kilometer cross-country race, an
eight-kilometer run and a 45-kilometer walk. The distances are
based on the date, month and year (Aug. 17, 1945) when
Indonesia's founding fathers, the late president Sukarno and vice
president Mohammad Hatta, proclaimed the nation's independence.