Indonesia managed to win three silver medals and one bronze on the final day of competition, to finish in third place behind reigning champion China and Japan, at the World Junior Wushu Championships in Nusa Dua, Bali, on Saturday.

Indonesian medals came in the taolu (form) events, in which Vietnam emerged with the most gold medals, winning three of the eight up for grabs on the day. Hong Kong secured two and South Korea, Iran and Malaysia each took one.

Lindswell and Eric Losardi added to their medal collection with a silver and a bronze respectively. Lindswell, who had won gold in the tajiquan event, was just one onehundredth behind Korean gold medalist Kim Ok-jin, who scored 9.21 points against Indonesian's 9.20 in the women's 42 discipline taijijian.

In the men's nando, Eric, the winner of nanquan event, failed to maintain form as and was outscored by Pham Quoc Khanh of Vietnam, who took gold, and Xu Kai Gul of Taiwan, who took silver.

Kelvin Young was also one onehundredth shy of winner Lam Ka Kin, from Hong Kong, in the men's gunshu event, winning silver. Bronze went to Komatsu Motoshi of Japan.

Indonesia's third silver came in the men's duilian event, which saw Charles Sutanto and Eric Losardi team up.

In total, Indonesia collected six gold, eight silver and eight bronze, a big leap from the first championship held in Kuala Lumpur two years ago, when Indonesia returned home with only a single gold, silver and two bronzes.

China proved its domination with a haul of 16 gold and two silver medals, while Japan will take home eight gold, five silver and five bronze medals.

The Chinese, however, were not invincible. They failed to make two of the eight finals they were fighting for in the sanshou arena, in both instances going down to their Russian opponents.

Six of Iran's competitors made the finals but only four managed victories, giving the team a total of five gold medals.

"We had expected more, but winning five gold medals makes us happy," Abbas Varizi, an Iranian team official, said.

Indonesia could only secure three silver medals. Despite the failure in the sanshou, the Indonesian team was generally beaming with the haul in taolu events, which, according to Supandi Kusuma, chairman of Wushu Indonesia (WI), surpassed expectations.

"We had expected between three and four gold medals. We are satisfied with the athletes performance," he said.

He urged the athletes to keep training for next year's challenge; Indonesia is preparing to take part in the Asian Junior Championship in the Phippines and the World Championship in Toronto, Canada.

The second World Junior Wushu Championship featured 44 countries, 27 of which are returning home with medals.

Medal tally

The final medal standings from the World Junior Wushu Championship, which closed on Saturday in Nusa Dua, Bali:

China 16 2 -

Japan 8 5 5

Indonesia 6 8 8

Vietnam 6 7 11

Hong Kong 5 5 3

Iran 5 2 6

Russia 4 3 4

Canada 3 7 3

Malaysia 3 5 3

Singapore 1 3 2

Philippines 1 3 -

South Korea 1 2 3

United States 1 2 1

Macau 1 1 6

Taiwan 1 1 2

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