Failed To Win The 2023 Asian Games Medal In 1000m Men's Singles, Indonesian Rowing Athletes Rudiansyah See Potential In Other Numbers

The rowing sport logo at the 2023 Asian Games. (Photo via Antara)

JAKARTA - Indonesian rowing athlete, Rudiansyah, has not won a medal at the 2023 Asian Games. This young Red and White athlete failed to penetrate the top three in the men's singles 1000m number, Monday, October 2.

Rudiansyah completed the final race at the Fuyang Water Sports Center in eighth place with a record of 4:58,328. He is adrift of the very wide margin of Taiwanese Lai Kuan-Chieh who won gold, which was 42,386 seconds.

Uzbekistan athlete Vladlen Denisov has to settle for silver. Timofey Yemelyanov completed the podium to bring bronze to the Kazhakhshtan team.

Rudiansyah's achievement is actually understandable. The reason is, the 2023 Asian Games is the athlete's debut.

"Ini Asian Games pertama saya. Saya masih atlet junior juga, jadi harus lebih keras latihannya," kata Rudiansyah dilansir dari Antara.

The athlete who was born on January 10, 2003, realized that rowing is not merely exercising all his strength to row towards finishing. He must be smart to see opportunities that often even sacrifice his performance to perform better in the next number he follows.

As happened today, Rudiansyah had to sacrifice the men's singles 1000m because she saw a chance to perform better in the 500m doubles in the afternoon.

"Not satisfied with my record time, but because I dropped in two numbers, single and double, then automatically one must be sacrificed," said Rudiansyah.

"The problem is, God willing, I have seen from yesterday, there is a double difference in time, there is an opportunity," he continued.

In the men's 500m doubles of the Hangzhou Asian Games, Rudiansyah will have a duet with his senior at the Anwar Tarra national training, which subscribes to winning the SEA Games and helping Indonesia win silver and bronze for the 2018 Asian Games dragon boat.