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Two more divers promoted to Top-tier Athletes Program
Agnes Winarti , The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Mon, 05/25/2009 2:39 PM | Sports
Feeling content with the improvement showed by young diving athletes in the four-day Diving National Championship which ended on Sunday, the Indonesian Swimming Association (PRSI) will promote two more young divers to the Top-tier Athletes Program (PAL).
PAL prepares athletes of different sports for the Southeast Asia (SEA) Games in December.
The two divers are Muhammad Nasrullah in the 10-meter platform and Sidik Agus Prihono in the 3-m springboard.
Nasrullah won two gold medals for East Java in the 5-meter and the 10-meter competition while Sidik from Central Java snatched silver in the 3-meter springboard at the just concluded National Diving Championship in Jakarta.
"Those young athletes have improved and are ready to replace their seniors. Thus we want to choose as many as possible qualified young athletes for the SEA Games in December," Eko Setiawan, an official of the Indonesian Swimming Association, which includes a diving division, said on Sunday.
The four-day competition featured 66 athletes, who are split in classes between under-10s and over-18s, from eight provinces.
Nasrullah and Sidik will make it five divers at PAL, following Sukran Jamjami (3-meter), Sari Ambarwati (women's 3-meter) and Della Dinar Sari (10-meter).
Sidik will partner the cham-pionship gold medalist Sukran in the 3-m springboard synchronized event.
"I guess I'm making some pro-gress from last year's National Championship," Della, who snatched a silver medal in the 5-meter event and gold in the 10-meter event, said.
East Java diving athletes still dominated the championship, by collecting a total of 34 gold medals, followed by South Sumatra with 20 golds.
Indonesia's top three divers will be sent to the World Diving Championship in Rome in July and the AASF Asia Championship in Japan in August as past of overseas workouts before the SEA Games in Laos.
"We will hold the final selection process about one or two months before the SEA Games," Suroyo, a PRSI official in charge of athletes' development, said.
Indonesia's divers won one gold, one silver and three bronze medals at 2007 SEA Games in Thailand. "We wish to have better achievements in the SEA Games this year," said Suroyo.
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