JAKARTA The Indonesian lifter, Rizky Juniansyah, made a surprise. He won two gold medals and one 73 kg silver class at the 2024 IWF World Cup which took place in Phuket, Thailand, on Thursday, April 4, 2024.
This result made Rizki win a ticket to the 2024 Paris Olympics. This means that the 20-year-old lifter eliminated the mainstay of another Indonesia, Rahmat Erwin Abdullah, who is also in the same class.
The bronze winner of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics only brought one silver and two bronze medals at the qualifying event for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Rizki was initially not seeded for qualifying for the 2024 Paris Olympics rather than Rahmat Erwin. However, unexpectedly, he made two gold medals from the clean & jerk class and a total lift with a load of 203 kg and 365 kg. Meanwhile, he won one silver medal from a snatch weighing 164 kg.
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Rizki Juniansyah defeated the Chinese lifter, Shi Ziyong, who won silver in total force 356 kg. Then, Shi Ziyong defeated Rizki in the snatch aka won gold with a load of 165 kg.
Meanwhile, Rahmat Erwin Abdullah won one silver from the clean & jerk weighing 206 kg. Then, two bronze medals were obtained from the snatch weighing 160 kg and a total lift of 355 kg.
"Rizki Juniansyah almost certainly won a ticket to the 2024 Paris Olympics because according to his rules he was the best at the 2024 IWF World Cup. Unfortunately, the IWF rules only allow one athlete for each country to appear in each class."
"Rizky and Rahmat are pearls in Indonesia's weightlifting. They have the opportunity to present gold and silver medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics," said Head of the Achievement Development Division of the Indonesian Weightlifting Association (PB PABSI), Hadi Wihardja.
Seeing this situation, Rahmat Erwin Abdullah legowo. Rahmat's father and coach, Erwin Abdullah, admitted that he had no problem with Rizki Juniansyah qualifying for the Paris 2024 Paris Olympics.
"In the world of sports, losing to winning is normal. We are sincere and tawakal. The important thing is that Indonesia has representatives in the 73 kg class at the 2024 Parsi Olympics," said Erwin Abdullah.
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