JAKARTA - Indonesia's representatives at the 2024 Olympics are certain to increase. It was the female archery athlete, Diananda Choirunisa, who added to the quota for the Red and White contingent in Paris.
Diananda won this ticket after winning a bronze medal at the 2023 Asian Games together with Riau Ega in the recurve mixed team event.
Apart from that, Diananda's certainty about going to Paris is also because South Korean athlete Lim Sihyeon, who won the gold medal with his partner Lee Wooseok in the recurve mixed team, has secured a ticket to the Paris Olympics in the individual event at the 2023 Asian Games.
The ticket quota for the Paris Olympics should have gone to Sugimoto Tomomi from Japan as second place winner in the mixed team, but because Sugimoto had also received a ticket quota from the Archery World Championships in Berlin, Germany last July, the ticket quota ultimately fell into Diananda's hands.
Diananda said that the competitive aura at the 2022 Asian Games, especially in the recurve division, was not easy. Apart from all the teams wanting to present the best for their country, the recurve division is also fighting for tickets to the Paris Olympics. This pressure was felt from the qualifying round to the elimination rounds.
"I am very grateful to be able to present a bronze medal and especially to get a ticket to the 2024 Paris Olympics. The support from the Indonesian archery contingent and community really means a lot to our struggle here. I dedicate this medal and Olympic ticket to Indonesia," said Diananda, as quoted from Antara.
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Diananda's success completes a ticket quota for the Paris Olympics that Arif Pangestu won at the Archery World Championships in Berlin, Germany. Indonesia will still be chasing tickets to the Paris Olympics at the Asian Continental Qualifier event, which will take place in Bangkok, Thailand, next November.
"Lim Sihyeon is certain to get an Olympic ticket from the individual event, while Sugimoto has already confirmed an Olympic ticket from Berlin. Meanwhile, Riau Ega has not been lucky enough to get a ticket to the Paris Olympics," said Executive Board of the Indonesian Archery Association (PB Perpani) Deputy Chair II for Development and Achievement Abdul Razak.
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