Indonesia bagged 10 medalsTangerang, Banten (ANTARA) - Indonesia, which hosted the 2022 World Junior Wushu Championships (WJWC), ranked third in terms of medal acquisition.
As a whole, Indonesia collected 10 gold, two silver and five bronze medals during the event officially closed by the Chairman of Indonesian Wushu Association (PB WI), Airlangga Hartarto, at ICE BSD, here, Saturday.
Iran became the champion with 13 gold, five silver and five bronze medals, followed by China with 10 gold, two silver and five bronze medals.
Indonesia's achievement during the eight edition of WJWC is a significant improvement as compared to the country's achievement in the previous championship in Brazil in 2018.
During that period, Indonesia ranked 11th with two gold, 10 silver and seven bronze medals.
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Rainie Elena Liem contributed the last gold medal for Indonesia from the women's B junior group qiangshu even in 2022 WJWC .
During the event, she managed to gather 9,176 points. Meanwhile, the silver medal was bagged by Oubu Ishii from Japan with 9,100 points and Kim Caeyoung from South Korea won bronze medal with 8,983 points.
Meanwhile, Executive Director of 2022 World Junior Wushu Championships Gunawan Tjokro noted that, as the host, Indonesia is grateful for being able in the top three.
"Indonesia bagged 10 medals. Our gold medal achievement is actually the same as China, but we lost one point in silver. Thus, as a whole, we are in the third place," he explained.
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Indonesia's achievement of bagging 10 gold medals exceeded the country's initial target of winning six gold medals, he added.
Meanwhile, Hartarto thanked all contingents from all countries for participating in the 2022 World Junior Wushu Championships.
He also thanked the Youth and Sports Ministry, the regional government as well as a number of donors for making the event a success.
Lastly, he thanked a number of companies that had attended and watched the wushu championships.
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Translator: Muhammad Ramdan, Fadhli Ruhman
Editor: Fardah Assegaf
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