JAKARTA - The Indonesian rowing team continues to prepare for the 2021 Hanoi SEA Games. One of them was participating in the Ghent International Spring Regatta in Belgium last weekend.
The result is quite extraordinary. In the championship which took place in Belgium, the Indonesian rowing team won seven gold, four silver, and one bronze medal.
The rowing national team coach Muhammad Hadris said this achievement was an important provision to achieve the target at the 2021 SEA Games.
"With the positive result at the Ghent International Spring Regatta, the national rowing team hopes that this result can be brought to the Hanoi SEA Games by achieving the predetermined target", Hadris said, as quoted by Antara.
Furthermore, continued Hadris, athletes will return to participate in the championship in Bosbaan, Amsterdam. The Indonesian rowing national team continues to boost preparations to achieve the target of winning seven gold medals at the Hanoi SEA Games.
"Our target is good and from the management is seven gold medals out of the 16 numbers contested. We continue to make preparations. 18 athletes go to the Netherlands", said Hadris.
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The 18 names currently in the Windmill Country are Memo, Sulpianto, Rio Riski Darmawan, Edwin Ginanjar Rudiana, Rifqi Harits Taufiqrahman, Ihram, Kakan Kusmana, Mahendra Yanto, Ardi Isadi, Jefri Adrianto Suwarno, Ali Mardiansyah, Denri Maulidzar Al Ghiffari , Ferdiansyah, and Ali Buton for the men's sector.
As for the girls, there are Julianti, Chelsea Corputty, Mutiara Rahma Putri, and Melani Putri.
The number of gold medals declared at the SEA Games Hanoi, is more than the achievement of the Indonesian rowing team at the previous edition of the SEA Games in the Philippines in 2019, namely with three gold and two bronze.
At that time, Indonesia won the most medals for rowing and was ahead of the Philippines (three gold and one bronze), Vietnam (three silver, one bronze), Thailand (three silver), and Myanmar (two bronze).
The three gold medals won by Indonesia were respectively contributed by Mahendra Yanto and Ihram (men's lightweight double sculls), Denri Maulidzar al Ghiffari, and Ferdiansyah (men's pairs), and Julianti and Yayah Rokayah (women's pairs).
While for bronze, Kakan Kusmana (men's lightweight single sculls) and Mutiara Rahma Putri (women's lightweight single sculls) respectively.
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