Weightlifting Asked To Completely Regeneration Of Athletes

The Minister of Youth and Sports (Menpora) of the Republic of Indonesia, Dito Ariotedjo, asked the weightlifting sport to regenerate athletes as a whole.

Dito conveyed this when he was present and opened the National Conference (Munas) of the Executive Board of the Indonesian Weightlifting Association (PB PABSI) at the Grand Kemang Hotel, South Jakarta, on Tuesday, November 5, 2024.

"Because we really hope that at the 2028 Olympics, PABSI will again donate a gold medal," said Dito as quoted by the website of the Ministry of Youth and Sports (Kemenpora).

Weightlifting has made history in winning the Olympic gold medal through lifter Rizki Juniansyah who appeared in the 73 kilogram class of the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Prior to this achievement, weightlifting was one of the routinely contributing Olympic medals for Indonesia. However, for this year's new gold medal.

Dito wants this achievement to be maintained by weightlifting at the next Olympics, the next four years. He also hopes that if he can weightlift can get more than one gold medal.

"It is hoped that in the future PB PABSI in the new leadership can maintain, even in the next Olympics it can make history, meaning that it must add medals," he said.

PB PABSI will be able to maximize the planned Cibubur Youth Elite Sport Center which has started operating in December 2024 to begin preparations for achieving that target.

Cibubur Youth Elite Sport Center is a training center for several Olympic priority sports. This place is equipped with various world standard facilities.

The main agenda of this National Conference is the election of the Chairman of PB PABSI for the 2025-2029 term of service. Roslan Roeslani also ran as the only candidate for the helm of the federation.