Swimming Collects Two More Gold Medals for Jakarta Contingent
Reported by Folmer | Translated by Nugroho Adibrata
Jakarta contingent continues to win gold medals from its mainstay sports at PON XXI Aceh - North Sumatra 2024.
Alhamdulillah (thank God), Jakarta has collected eight gold medals from swimming
As the swimming branch competed at Selayang Swimming Pool, North Sumatra, the athletes managed to collect two more gold medals from the men's 4x100 meter freestyle relay and the men's 200-meter freestyle. Thus, the total number of Jakarta swimmers has so far contributed eight gold medals.
Jakarta Youth and Sports Agency (Dispora) Head, Andri Yansyah expressed his party was targeting 10 gold medals from swimming.
Jakarta Leads Medal Standing at PON XXI"Insya Allah (God willing), our initial target of 10 gold medals can be achieved, and can even exceed 12 to 14 gold medals in the next two days, which will still feature several categories," he expressed, Wednesday (9/18).
He uttered that as many as 11 PON records had also been broken in PON XXI swimming event.
"This proves that swimming coaching is evenly distributed throughout Indonesia. Alhamdulillah (thank God), Jakarta has collected eight gold medals from swimming," he stated.
