JAKARTA - Indonesian women's lifter Windy Cantika Aisah admitted that she did not expect to win a medal in her debut at the Olympics in Tokyo, Saturday, July 24 today.
At a relatively young age, which is 19 years old, Windy was able to donate a bronze medal in the women's 49kg class. As a debutant athlete, the lifter from West Java admitted that he did not expect much when competing in Tokyo. PB PABSI also from the beginning did not set grandiose targets to Windy.
"Alhamdulillah, I am very happy because at the age of 19, I can participate in the Olympics and donate medals," said Windy at a virtual press conference in Jakarta, quoted from Antara.
“This is a surprise especially since this is my first Olympics. I didn't expect to get a medal. From the start of starting a career as a lifter, he has been told about the future. So I just flow," he continued.
Windy Cantika was actually predicted to win a medal at the Tokyo Olympics by the coach based on the results she had in the two qualifying tournaments, last April and May.
However, when he entered the arena of the Olympics, Windy had to start the match less than optimally because he failed to do the snatch twice. Windy admitted, the failure was due to a lack of warm-up time.
“For earlier in the snatch class, the warm-up time was a little, I think the warm-up took a long time but it was short. So I'm a little out of breath," he said.
Luckily, the failure was immediately paid for in cash when Windy managed to pass three clean and jerk attempts. According to Indonesia's head weightlifting coach, Dirdja Wihardja, the success of his teammates when they managed to do clean and jerk lifts was quite surprising.
“Windy's weakness based on the coach's evaluation is that he is still weak in clean and jerk. But it turns out that his ability has improved thanks to his discipline during training, "said Dirdja.
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