Swimming Athletes Joe Aditya And Azzahra Qualify For The 2024 Olympics

Indonesian swimming athlete Azzahra Permatahani (Instagram/@zahrapermatasihani).

JAKARTA Two Indonesian swimmers, Joe Aditya Kurniawan and Azzahra Permatahani, officially got tickets to appear at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the middle of this year.

The Indonesian Aquatics Executive Board (PB AI) in an official statement on Wednesday, July 3, 2024, confirmed that the two athletes had the opportunity to appear in the four-year multi-event through the Universality Places route.

"This assurance was obtained by PB AI after receiving an official letter from the World Aquatic Federation or World Aquatic. The two names that passed were based on the highest World Aquatic points until June 23, 2024," reads the statement received by PB AI.

Universality Places is a qualifying system that allows its members who fail to qualify athletes from one of the sports to propose one of the highest ranking male and female athletes to compete in the Olympics.

Joe Aditya of the men's 100 meters butterfly at this time has a record time of 53.17 seconds. Meanwhile, Azzahra Permatahani in the women's 200-meter lifestyle has a time of 02 minutes 18.47 seconds.

The addition of these two athletes has made Indonesia a total of 29 athletes have passed to the 2024 Paris Olympics either through qualification or Universality Places.

The 2024 Paris Olympics will take place from July 26 to August 11, 2024. In total there are more than 10 thousand athletes who will appear as contestants there.

Indonesia will come with a target of bringing home more than two gold medals for the first time in the history of participating in the Olympics.

In Olympic history, Indonesia's best achievement with two gold medals was at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, which was contributed by men's and women's singles badminton.