Cidiss. Defia became the first gold medal contributor for the Indonesian contingent at the 2018 Asian Games after successfully winning the women’s poomsae number in the taekwondo branch. The girl born on May 25, 1995 defeated Marjan Salahshouri from Iran with the numbers 8,690-8,470 in the final match at JCC Senayan, Jakarta. Sunday August 19, 2018.
Defia’s victory was already suspected. He is one of the athletes who are predicted to win a gold medal at the 2018 Asian Games. The 23-year-old athlete from Bogor started his action at the Asian Games by facing Hong Kong’s representative, Wong Ka Yiu. His landslide victory with a score of 8,220 – 7,690 solidified his pace to advance to the quarter-finals.
In the last eight, Defia won from Vietnamese and South Korean athletes. Appearing watched directly by President Joko Widodo, Defia then defeated Marjan Salahshouri, an Iranian athlete in his final match. Defia beat Salahsouri with a score of 8,690 – 8,470, so she won the gold medal from Taekwondo in women’s poomsae singles, while silver won by Marjan Salahshouri and bronze medals earned Yap Khim Wen from Malaysia and Yun Jihye from Korea.
Defia’s success also attracted the attention of the Minister of Youth and Sports Imam Nahrawi. He also congratulated Defia for the success. “Thank God, God, the first gold for Indonesia. Thank you Defia and all the coaches, officials and supporters of the Indonesian team, “Imbuh Imam Nahrawi in his Twitter account.
While other Indonesian representatives in individual groups of men and male and female teams failed to move to the next round, Indonesian representatives in the individual category of Muhammad Abdurrahman’s son Wahyu failed to advance to the semifinals after being defeated by Iranian athlete Koorosh Bakhtiyar. Wahyu lost with a score of 8,190-8,250 from Koorosh, while the Indonesian men’s team who had defeated Kazakhstan in the last 16 must recognize Korea’s superiority in the quarter-finals.
By : Rikky,S*)
