Balangan Swimmer Contribute Silver in Myanmar Para Games

By Hasan Zainuddin

Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan (Antaranews) - A swimmer from the Panggung Village, Balangan District, South Kalimantan, Indonesia scent back after successfully donating one silver and two bronze in the arena of Asean Para Games 2014 in the city of Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar.

Balangan athletes who donate three medals at the Para Games arena is Akhmad Rijali, as he said in a short messages from Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, to antaranews Branch Banjarmasin on Sunday.

According to his statement, he firstly earned bronze medal in the championships some of the ASEAN countries took part.

The first day was Wednesday dated January 15, 2014 in a pool match in the 100 -meter back number , Ahmad Rijali can only be claimed the bronze medal with a time of 1.28.63 while Vietnamese swimmers, Dang, won a gold medal with 01:26:16 timeliness. While silver medalist runner was Thailand athlete, Wong, with a time of 1:28:29.

The second day in the 50 meters backstroke, first champion(gold) Dang from Vietnam with a time of 00:38:34 and then silver won by Akhmah Rijali ( Indonesia ) time of 0:39:46 , and bronze by Wong (Thailand) time of 0:40:22.

Then the third day in 100-meter freestyle, the gold won by Ilham (Indonesia ) time 1:13:55, silver Tien Yu (Malaysia) 1:15:46, and bronze won by Akhmad Rijali time 01.16.74.

According to the son of Supaini and Jubaidah, before leaving for Myanmar to represent Indonesia, he and other 

disabled athletes from Indonesia trained intensively for six months in Solo by Dimin and Handoko.

Earlier in a similar championship in Solo, Central Java (Indonesia ) in 2011 and then, Akhmad Rijali can only donate 

a bronze in 50 -meter backstroke swimming s8 class travel time of 41.11 seconds.