Gold Increases At The 2025 Asian Youth Para Games, Delima Yunia Breaks Asian Record

Athletes of the weightlifters Delima Yunia Susanti broke Asian records when they won gold at the 2025 Asian Youth Para Games. (NPC Indonesia)

JAKARTA - Athletes of the weightlifters Delima Yunia Susanti broke Asian records for the women's 79 kg class in the rookie category at the 2025 Asian Youth Para Games. The 88 kg force conducted by Delima ensured that the gold medal for Indonesia was won

Delima Yunia, one of the young athletes who is projected to win medals at the 2025 ASEAN Para Games. When appearing at the 2025 Asian Youth Para Games which became a warm-up before competing in APG, Delima is predicted to contribute gold.

This estimate is based on his background, which is already 11 years old, pursuing the weightlifting sport. This prediction is proven to be appropriate when Adel competed in the Dubai Club For People of Determination weightlifting venue, Thursday, December 11, 2025.

15-year-old Adel is surrounded by more seeded athletes from Uzbekistan. But he had no trouble recording the toughest batch since the first opportunity.

Adel opened the match with an lift of 80 kg. On the second occasion, Adel tried to break the women's Asian class record in the rookie category with a record of 85 kg. Adel broke the record with an force weighing 86 kg.

Adel tried to break that record again on the third occasion. Adel also succeeded in setting a new record with an lift weighing 88 kg.

After consulting with the coaching team, Adel, who has one additional opportunity, tried to break the record for a 92 kg world record. Unfortunately, the 93 kg load was unable to be lifted by Adel, although he had actually recorded a 95 kg lift in training sessions.

For this achievement, Adel admitted that he was happy and satisfied. This athlete from West Java said that the gold medal achievement was the fruit of hard work during the preparation period. Moreover, he managed to break Asian records.

"Actually, I didn't expect to win a gold medal because the opponents were tough. Thank God I was able to present a gold medal for Indonesia," said Adel.

"I'm happy because this is a gold medal that I have always dreamed of. It turns out that the exercises I have been going through since before joining the National Training Center were not in vain by winning a gold medal in Dubai," he continued.

Adel also spoke of his family's full support when leaving for the 2025 Asian Youth Para Games. Incidentally, Adel came from a family who was pursuing the world of weightlifting where one brother is still active in his career representing Bandung district.

This student of SMP 1 Pasundan, Bandung, said that the success of winning this gold medal was the fruit of the decision to continue his career in weightlifting. Before being called to the training camp, Adel also had time to participate in the XVII 2024 National Paralympic Week (Peparnas) in Solo City.

The success of winning the gold medal made the team weightlifting exceeded the target of one gold and one bronze which was charged by the Indonesian contingent. Now, the weightlifting team has received one gold medal and three silver medals.

Those who won silver medals included Imam Nur Shaleh (54 kg men's rookie category), Putri Sri Rahayu Lase (-55 kg women in the next gene category) and Rintan Dyah Saputri (-61 kg women in the rookie category).

This result is quite encouraging and surprising to us. The athletes really fight here. Even though they were nervous, they were still able to achieve achievements," said Indonesia's weightlifter coach, Coni Ruswanta.

Opportunities to win additional medals are still open. Indonesia will still take part in the mixed team class, but Coni will not provide additional burdens to the athletes.

"When we talk about opportunities, we really can't predict because we don't know who the athletes who were deployed by other countries are," said Coni.

What is certain is that one thing that is more important after the 2025 Asian Youth Para Games is the long-term progress of Delima Yunia et al. Coni is optimistic that athletes who are dominated by the dropout program Breaking the Limit can continue to grow.

They can be better because they are still young. On average, they have only known the weightlifters for five months and are now able to compete in Asian class," he said.