Indonesian Lifters Leave For The 2024 Paris Olympics On July 21

Weightlifter Rikzi Juniansyah while practicing at Mess Kwini, Jakarta, Friday, June 14, 2024 (VOI/Cosmas Kopong Beda).

JAKARTA Indonesian weightlifters who appear at the 2024 Paris Olympics will leave for France on July 21, 2024 or five days before the world's biggest sporting event officially opens.

This was confirmed by the Chef de Mission (CdM) of the Indonesian contingent, Anindya Novyan Bakrie, when visiting the weightlifting national training camp (pelatnas) at Mess Kwini, Jakarta, on Friday, June 14, 2024, evening WIB.

"Then go to the athletes' village on August 4, 2024. It indicates that there is still time to aclimitize and prepare yourself," said Anindya.

The weightlifting sport of the Paris 2024 Olympics will be competed on 7-11 August 2024. Indonesia has three athletes who will appear.

The three lifters who received tickets to this four-year multi-event were Rizki Juniansyah (class 73 kilograms), Eko Yuli Irawan (class 61 kilograms), and Nurul Akmal (class +81 kilograms).

Anindya hopes that the extraordinary preparations of these three athletes will hopefully produce satisfactory results. Moreover, weightlifting is one of the mainstay sports to gain a gold medal.

"I think the important thing is that they focus on training, rest, and of course given comfort. So, their athletes already know what to do, the target, and it's important that they know there is a team that supports them," said Anindya.

Weightlifting is one of the sports that is very consistent in contributing medals for Indonesia. This sport has contributed a total of seven silver medals and eight bronze medals for Indonesia at the Olympics.

One of the silver medals was obtained in the 2020 edition in Tokyo through Eko Yuli Irawan. This year is Eko's fifth chance to appear in the Olympics in a row.

Eko so far holds the record as the only Indonesian athlete to have the most medals and medals in the Olympics.

The medals collected by Eko consisted of two silver and two bronze, respectively. He got bronze in his first two appearances and silver in his latest two appearances.