President Jokowi Immediately Congratulates Windy Cantika Aisah On Medal Achievement

Jokowi congratulated Windy Cantika Aisah who won bronze at the Tokyo Olympics. (Doc. State Secretariat)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) congratulated Indonesian female weightlifter Windy Cantika Aisah who won the first medal for the Red and White team at the Tokyo Olympics.

"From the country, I congratulate you," said President Jokowi through the Instagram account @jokowi which was uploaded on Saturday, June 24.

Windy Cantika Aisah who fell in the 49kg class won a bronze medal after recording a total lift of 194kg, with a snatch of 84kg and a clean and jerk of 110kg based on the official Olympic records.

Windy Cantika Aisah. (KOI Doc)

"Good news came from Tokyo, today. Indonesian female weightlifter, Windy Cantika Aisah, presented the first medal from the Tokyo Olympics by winning a bronze medal in the 49kg class," the President said in his upload as reported by Antara.

Indonesian weightlifter Windy Cantika Aisah became the first medal contributor for the Red and White team while competing at the Tokyo International Forum.

The gold medal was won by Chinese lifter Hou Zhihui who posted a total lift of 210kg (94kg snap and 116kg clean and jerk).

Meanwhile, Indian lifter Chanu Mirabai is entitled to a silver medal after recording a total lift of 202kg with a snatch of 87kg and a clean and jerk of 115kg.

Windy Cantika Aisah between China lifter Hou Zhihui gold medalist and Indian lifter Chanu Mirabai silver medalist.(Doc KOI)

In her debut at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Windy Cantika first failed when she made an 84kg snatch in the first attempt. He was only able to lift the 84kg barbell on the second occasion.

Unfortunately, Windy failed again when he tried to increase his lifting load to 87kg on the third try. Luckily, the failure was immediately redeemed when he did a clean and jerk.

Windy Cantika Aisah did not encounter any significant obstacles when performing clean and jerk lifts on three occasions. The 19-year-old athlete easily lifted the lift starting with 103kg, 108kg, up to 110kg, and secured a bronze medal for Indonesia.

The success of Windy Cantika Aisah in making the nation proud was appreciated by President Jokowi.