Participating In The 2022 World Junior Championships In Greece, Windy Cantika Aisyah And 3 Young Indonesian Lifters For Lebaran Away From Family

Indonesian young lifter, Windy Cantika Aisyah. (Photo: Instagram @windy Cantika11)

JAKARTA - Four young Indonesian lifters will take part in the 2022 Junior World Weightlifting Championships in Heraklion, Crete, Greece. They are Windy Cantika Aisyah, Najla Khoirunnisa, Juliana Clarissa, and Rizki Juniansyah.

This makes the four of them have to be willing to celebrate Eid 2022 away from their families.

"I took part in the World Junior Championships in Greece and it coincided with Eid al-Fitr," said Windy as reported by Antara, Wednesday, April 27.

Currently, Windy and his friends are focusing on preparing themselves with the national training team at the Marine Complex, Kwini, Jakarta. In addition to the World Junior Championships, Windy, Najla, and Rizki are also prepared to compete at the SEA Games Hanoi, Vietnam, 12-23 May 2022.

At the 2022 World Junior Championships in Greece, Windy will be present to defend the gold medal won in last year's edition in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. At that time, she was the best in the women's 49 kg class, after making a total of 191 kg (86 kg snatch and 105 kg clean & jerk).

The lifter from West Java defeated the Romanian representative Mihaela Cambei who won silver with a total weight of 185 kg and the lifter from Russia Elizaveta Zhatkina who returned with bronze after making a total lift of 165 kg.

Apart from Windy, male lifter Rizki Juniansyah will also fight to defend the gold medal he won in Uzbekistan last year. At that time, he was the best in the 73 kg class, after making a total of 349 kg (155 kg snatch and 194 kg clean &jerk).

More than just winning a gold medal, Rizki's score also made his name as the holder of three world youth records, namely the total force, snatch, and clean & jerk.

Meanwhile, Juliana Clarissa and Rizki Juniansyah will compete in the women's 45 kg and 55 kg at the 2022 World Junior Championships.

Deputy Chairperson of the Executive Board of the All-Indonesian Weightlifting Association (PB PABSI) Djoko Pramono said Indonesian athletes were not burdened with targets in Greece.

"We don't want to promise grandiose targets. The important thing is that they appear all-out, thankfully they were able to break the world record," said Djoko Pramono.