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Indonesia's athletes hope to net gold at Paris Olympics
The country has secures more sports tickets in the world's largest multisport event than it has done in the past two decades.
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President Joko “Jokowi“ Widodo (center) gestures as he joins Indonesian athletes who will compete in the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympic Games during a send-off ceremony at the Merdeka Palace in Jakarta on Wednesday, July 10, 2024. Indonesia sends 29 athletes from12 sports to compete in the quadrennial event. (AFP/Bay Ismoyo)
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ndonesia has big hopes for this year’s Paris Summer Olympics, which open on July 26, as the country has 29 athletes in more sports than in the previous event.
Indonesia secured 12 sports in the 2024 Paris Summer Games, the highest number in the past two decades after the country sent 38 athletes to compete in 14 different sports during the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.
Among the sports Indonesia will compete in, badminton contributed the most athletes with nine shuttlers, followed by archery and sport climbing which contributed four athletes each. There are also three weightlifters and two swimmers.
Other sports only have one athlete competing at athletics, cycling, gymnastics, judo, surfing, rowing and shooting.
During the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, Indonesia sent 28 athletes to compete in eight sports, the same number of athletes and sports competing in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. At the 2012 London Olympics, Indonesia sent 22 athletes to compete in eight sports.
Speaking during the athletes' departure at the Merdeka Palace on Wednesday, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said the athletes should win medals and make Indonesia proud in the eyes of the world.
"We all hope you will win and bring home medals," Jokowi said.
