Atlet angkat besi Indonesia Rizki Juniansyah meraih medali emas Olimpiade 2024 pada pertandingan kelas 73 kg di Paris, Prancis, Jumat (9/8) dini hari WIB.
00:00Athlete Angkat Besi asal Kota Sarangbanten, Rizky Juniansyah, won the second gold medal for Indonesia at the 2024 Olympics after successfully completing the lift with a total weight of 354 kg, including snatch, 155 kg and clean and jerk, 199 kg.
00:26Rizky defeated Weepun Weechima from Thailand at the 73 kg final in South Paris Arena 6, Paris, Friday, August 9.
00:38Rizky Juniansyah's father, Muhammad Yassin, was met at his residence in Kota Sarang and said,
00:45Rizky's interest in lifting seems to have been since he was still in elementary school, precisely when he was 7 years old in 2010.
00:54Then Rizky entered the PPLP Training and Training Center, and has been following a number of championships as a lifting athlete since the age of 11, precisely in 2014.
01:07Rizky's father admitted that he did not expect his son to win a gold medal at the 2024 Olympics.
01:14Recalling a year earlier, in August 2023, Rizky underwent a bone marrow surgery, which required him to rest for a total of 5 months.
01:24Rizky's father also revealed a week before the competition, Rizky had expressed his desire to be able to build a lift if he won the Olympics.
