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Indonesian rowers left in China's wake
Indonesian rowers found themselves trailing at Chungju Tangeum Lake on Wednesday, while China proved their strength by taking four of the seven gold medals at stake
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ndonesian rowers found themselves trailing at Chungju Tangeum Lake on Wednesday, while China proved their strength by taking four of the seven gold medals at stake.
Chinese rowers were insurmountable in the women's doubles sculls, men's quadruple sculls, women's pair and lightweight women's quadruple sculls. Indonesia had representatives in the latter two finals but the rowers failed to propel themselves onto the podium.
In the women's pair final, Chelsea Corputty and Wa Ode Fitri Rahmanjani covered the 2,000 meter distance in 8:28.13 minutes to finish in fourth place. Zhang Min and Miao Tian won the race, 15 seconds ahead of Jeon Seo-yeong and Kim Seo-hee of South Korea while Kazakhstan's Yekaterina Artemyeva and Viktoriya Chepikova were in third, 17 seconds behind the winners.
The lightweight women's quadruple sculls final initially held hopes that the Indonesian team, which comprises Sylva Lisdiana, Yuniarty, Yayah Rokayah and Maryam Makdalena, would overcome Iran and Thailand to cling onto third place behind Vietnam and China.
Passing the 500m mark, however, they began to flag and Iran overtook them, with China and Vietnam fighting closely for front place. In the final 500 m, Thailand accelerated to overtake Indonesia near the finish line.
Hong Kong, Korea and Japan took the other three gold medals.
Hong Kong prevailed in lightweight men's singles sculls with Kwan Hoi Look beating Korean Lee Hak-beom by 0.91 seconds. Dushiant Dushyant of India grabbed the silver.
Korea fought back in the women's singles sculls, thanks to Kim Ye-ji, who held off Hong Kong's Lee Ka Man to reach the finish line well ahead of her rival. Huyen Thanh Ta of Vietnam followed in third place.
Japan joined the medal celebrations by winning the lightweight men's doubles sculls, courtesy of Takahiro Suda and Hideki Omoto.
Indonesian rowers will be back in the medal challenge on Thursday when the final day of rowing offers another seven gold medals.
They will be competing in three finals ' lightweight women's doubles sculls, men's singles sculls and lightweight men's quadruple sculls.
