Sweeps 5 Gold Medals Para-swimming, Jendi Pangabean: Alhamdulillah Target Achieved

Swimmer Jendi Pangabean (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - Elite swimmer Jendi Pangabean has successfully wiped out five gold medals from the five para-swimming events he participated in at the 2022 ASEAN Para Games at the Jatidiri Stadium, Semarang.

In the 200 meter individual medley SM9 on Thursday, Jendi managed to record the fastest time of 2 minutes 35.30 seconds, followed by Vietnamese Nguyen Ngoc Thiet (2 minutes 51.75 seconds) and Filipino swimmer Arbel Aba (3 minutes 11.48 seconds). second).

Jendi's record in this number at the Malaysian APG, which is 2 minutes 33.37 seconds has also not been broken.

"Five number five gold. Happy and proud of course because the coach's target is to maintain five gold medals in Malaysia. Thank God the target was achieved," he said, quoted from Antara, Thursday.

The athlete, who was born in Muara Enim, South Sumatra, has previously won four gold medals, namely the men's 100-meter backstroke S9 and 100-meter butterfly S9 for individuals.

Then, the two team events, namely the 4x100 meter men's medley relay with 34 points with three swimmers; Rino Saputra, Guntur, and Zaki Zulkarnain.

In addition, in the men's 4x100 meter freestyle relay with 34 points, Jendi went down with Zaki Zulkarnain, Ahmad Azwari, and Guntur.

In fact, Jendi also broke records in two numbers, namely in the 100 meter butterfly S9 men with a time of 1 minute 4.71 seconds.

That time broke the record set by Huynh Amh Khoa Vo with 1 minute 6.12 seconds in 2011.

The second record was printed by Jendi et al. in the men's 4x100 meter medley relay, 34 points with a time of 4 minutes 44.92 seconds.

The record at that time improved the previous record set by Jendi, who at that time appeared with Guntur, M Karubaba, and Suriansyah at APG Malaysia 2017 with 4 minutes 46.29 seconds.

In the men's 100 meters backstroke S9, Jendi's 2017 record with a time of 1 minute 6.54 seconds has yet to be broken.

"This is the result of hard work from the national training (national training) in the last eight months," said Jendi, who has competed in the 2016 Rio Paralympics and Tokyo 2020 Paralympics.