Rizki Juniansyah Brings Indonesia To Repeat The Success Of 32 Years Ago

Rizki Juniansyah brought Indonesia to repeat the glory 32 years ago at the Olympics (doc. NOC Indonesia).

JAKARTA The success of lifter Rizki Juniansyah in bringing home the gold medal automatically made Indonesia repeat the success 32 years ago.

Rizki got gold after becoming the best in the men's 73 kilograms class with a total lift of 354 kilograms (snatch 155 kilograms and clean and jerk 199 kilograms) on Friday, August 9, 2024, early morning WIB.

The 21-year-old athlete defeated Thailand's representative, Weeraphon Wichuma, who received silver and Bulgarian lifter Bozhidar Andreev, who bagged bronze.

This achievement is the second gold for Indonesia at the 2024 Paris Olympics after Veddriq Leonardo received the same medal from the men's rock speed climbing on Thursday, August 8, 2024, evening WIB.

The success of winning these two gold medals repeated Indonesia's success at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics or 32 years ago.

Two gold medals in one Olympics are still Indonesia's best achievements in the history of participation.

While at Barcelona, two Indonesian gold medals were all contributed by badminton, each from the women's singles and men's singles.

At that time, Susi Susanti was on the women's singles number highest podium, then Alan Budikusuma was in the men's singles number.

In addition to repeating the wait during that long, Indonesia was also able to get a gold medal for the first time from sports other than badminton.

As is known, all six gold medals after Susi and Alan's success were obtained by badminton, which this year only brought home one bronze through the women's singles Gregoria Mariska Tunjung.

These two gold medals are actually beyond Indonesia's target. This is because Indonesia left for Paris this year with the aim of passing the achievements that have been made at Barcelona, aka getting more than two gold medals.

However, Indonesia still has hope through lifter Nurul Akmal. The athlete will compete in the women's +81 kilogram class on Sunday, August 11, 2024.

Nurul was not included in the seed at the 2024 Paris Olympics. However, everything could happen on stage as big as the Olympics.