KOMPAS.TV – The first medal for Indonesia at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics was obtained by weightlifter Windy Cantika Aisah who won a bronze medal in the 49 kg class. This makes weightlifting continue the tradition of medals at the Olympics. Windy successfully recorded a total lift of 194 kg with details of 84 kg for the snatch and 110 kg for the clean and jerk. Indonesian netizens cheered on the Twitter timeline celebrating Indonesia’s first medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The hashtags #weightlifting and the hashtag #windi became trending topics on Indonesian Twitter. These two hashtags were lively with congratulations and the netizens felt proud of the athlete from Bandung. The Indonesian badminton team also won their first four matches, namely in the men’s doubles party Kevin-Marcus defeating the British pair in straight sets. Indonesian mixed doubles Praveen-Melati beat the Australian pair in a rubber game. Indonesian men’s singles Jonatan Christie easily won in straight sets over Aram Mahmoud, and Indonesian women’s doubles Greysia Poli and Apriyani defeated the Malaysian pair in straight sets. To find out the condition of Indonesian athletes in Tokyo, see the conversation with the Chef de Mission of the Indonesian Contingent, Rosan P. Roeslani. .
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