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Indonesia wins only 1 gold, drops to fifth place

Unstoppable: Indonesia’s Horas Manurung (front) fights with his Singaporean opponent Gabriel Yang during the final of the men’s 90 kg judo match at the 28th SEA Games in Singapore on Sunday

The Jakarta Post
Jakarta
Tue, June 9, 2015

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Indonesia wins only 1 gold, drops to fifth place Unstoppable: Indonesia’s Horas Manurung (front) fights with his Singaporean opponent Gabriel Yang during the final of the men’s 90 kg judo match at the 28th SEA Games in Singapore on Sunday. Horas won the gold at the Expo Hall on Sunday.(Antara/Nyoman Budhiana) (front) fights with his Singaporean opponent Gabriel Yang during the final of the men’s 90 kg judo match at the 28th SEA Games in Singapore on Sunday. Horas won the gold at the Expo Hall on Sunday.(Antara/Nyoman Budhiana)

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span class="inline inline-center">Unstoppable: Indonesia'€™s Horas Manurung (front) fights with his Singaporean opponent Gabriel Yang during the final of the men'€™s 90 kg judo match at the 28th SEA Games in Singapore on Sunday. Horas won the gold at the Expo Hall on Sunday.(Antara/Nyoman Budhiana)

Indonesia could only add one to its gold collection on Monday to drop to fifth position in the provisional standings among 11 participating nations at the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Singapore.

The sole glittering medal came from the wushu arena at Hall 2 of the Singapore Expo center, courtesy of Lindswell Kwok in the women'€™s tajijian contest.

Lindswell scored 9.73 to win her second gold. The silver medal went to Valerie Ling En Wee of Singapore with 9.71 and the bronze to Sin Yi Ng of Malaysia with 9.69.

Indonesia, with a total of 13 golds, was leapfrogged by Malaysia, which managed to earn six golds for a total of 15. Singapore topped the table with 40, followed by Vietnam (26) and Thailand (23).

The hosts raked in 11 golds on Monday. The swimming pool delivered six with Joseph Schooling winning two, which was his second double after Sunday. Singapore also picked up golds in canoeing (two), wushu (two), dressage (one), table tennis (one) and billiards and snooker (one).

Indonesia, the once mighty delegation in the region, was obviously second fiddle in the pool with swimmers failing to deliver a gold after three days of competition.

Indonesia'€™s Triady Fauzi Sidiq touched the men'€™s 50 meter freestyle finish line in 23.11 seconds, behind champion Schooling at 22.47 and Napat Wesshasartar at 23.08.

In the Marina Channel, Indonesia'€™s bid for canoeing gold turned silver as Erni Sokoy came second at 1 minute and 59 seconds in the women'€™s K-1 500 meters. Chen Jiexian Stephenie won the gold in 1 minute and 55 seconds and Vu Thi Linh in 2 minutes and 3 seconds.

Erni and Masripah could only grab bronze in the women'€™s K-2 500 meters. Singapore again triumphed for gold and Thailand was in second place for silver.

'€œErni was late at the start. However, she was also up against strong opponents,'€ team manager Hari Sidarta said as quoted by Antara news agency.

Indonesia was unable to add more gold in the judo competition, which ended on Monday.

Although Thailand won two golds, Indonesia emerged the holder of the most gold with four, with the winners including Ahmad Raharjo (men'€™s 66 kilogram), Ni Kadek Anny Andini (women'€™s 56 kg), Gerrard George (men'€™s 86 kg) and Horas Manurung (men'€™s under-90 kg).

At the Kallang Tennis Center, the Indonesian team beat the Philippines 2-1 to advance to the final.

Adityo Sasongko was beaten by Ruben Gonzales Jr. 3-6, 6-7 (4) in the first match. Christopher Rungkat leveled the score with a 7-6 (3), 6-0 win over Jeson Patrombon before he paired with Sunu Wahyu Trijati to edge Francis Alcantara/Treat Huey 6-3, 6-2 in the third match.

Indonesia will face Thailand in the final.

Meanwhile, athletes, officials and fans at the Games marked a somber minute'€™s silence on Monday for the six schoolchildren and two adults killed in an earthquake on Malaysia'€™s Mount Kinabalu, AFP reported.

Sports venues across the small island nation fell silent on what was declared a national day of remembrance after the extent of Singapore'€™s losses became known on Sunday.

The victims from Singapore were on a school trip to the popular Malaysian hiking destination when a 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck on Friday, toppling boulders and unleashing landslides.

One Singaporean student and one teacher are still missing after the disaster, for which there is a death toll of 16.

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