Olympic Medalists of Indonesia (Until 2020)

Review by : Yuli SE., MM

Olympic Games become the most precious moment for every country, including Indonesia. They show up their most talented athletes to compete with other athletes fairly at the arena. That is why, since the first time Indonesia participated in the Olympics, the country send the best one of them.

In 1952, Indonesia participated in the Summer Olympics as the popular International sports event in Indonesia, that was held in Helsinki, Finland. In 1988, when the Olympics was held in Seoul, South Korea, Indonesia won the first silver medal from an archery competition.

It was Nurfitriyana Saiman, Kusuma Wardani, and Lilies Handayani who won the medals at the Summer Olympic 1988. That makes Indonesia so proud of them for their achievement. Four years later, at the Summer Olympic 1992, Susi Susanti and Alan Budi Kusuma won their first gold medal as one of the facts of Indonesian sport.

Speaking of Olympic medallist of Indonesia, here we have some of the lists below from time to time. Let’s check some of them at the table list below!

No.	Name	Medal	Year	Sport
1	Nufritriyana Saiman, Kusuma Wardani, and Lilies Handayani	Silver	1988 Seoul	Archery, Women’s Group
2	Susi Susanti	Gold	1992 Barcelona	Badminton, Women’s Single
3	Alan Budi Kusuma	Gold	1992 Barcelona	Badminton, Men’s Single
4	Ardy Wiranata	Silver	1992 Barcelona	Badminton, Men’s Single
5	Eddy Hartono and Rudy Gunawan	Silver	1992 Barcelona	Badminton, Men’s Double
6	Hermawan Susanto	Bronze	1992 Barcelona	Badminton, Men’s Single
7	Rexy Mainaki and Ricky Subagja	Gold	1996 Atlanta	Badminton, Men’s Double
8	Mia Audina	Silver	1996 Atlanta	Badminton, Women’s Single
9	Anthonius Arianto and Denny Kantono	Bronze	1996 Atlanta	Badminton, Men’s Double
10	Susi Susanti	Bronze	1996 Atlanta	Badminton, Women’s Single
11	Tony Gunawan and Candra Wijaya	Gold	2000 Sidney	Badminton, Men’s Double
12	Tri Kusharjanto and Minarti Timur	Silver	2000 Sidney	Badminton, Mixed Doubles
13	Hendrawan	Silver	2000 Sidney	Badminton, Men’s Single
14	Raema Lisa Rumbewas	Silver	2000 Sidney	Weightlifting, Women’s fin weight-48kg
15	Sri Indriyani	Bronze	2000 Sidney	Weightlifting, Women’s fin weight-48kg
16	Winarni Binti Slamet	Bronze	2000 Sidney	Weightlifting, Women’s fin weight-53kg
17	Taufik Hidayat	Gold	2004 Athens	Badminton, Men’s Single
18	Raema Lisa Rumbewas	Silver	2004 Athens	Weightlifting, Women’s fin weight-53kg
19	Sony Dwi Kuncoro	Bronze	2004 Athens	Badminton, Men’s Single
20	Eng Hian and Flandy Limpele	Bronze	2004 Athens	Badminton, Men’s Double
21	Hendra Setiawan and Markis Kido	Gold	2008 Beijing	Badminton, Men’s Double
22	Nova Widianto and Liliana Natsir	Silver	2008 Beijing	Badminton, Mixed Doubles
23	Maria Kristin Yulianti	Bronze	2008 Beijing	Badminton, Women’s Single
24	Eko Yuli Irawan	Bronze	2008 Beijing	Weightlifting, Men’s fin weight-56kg
25	Triyatno	Bronze	2008 Beijing	Weightlifting, Men’s fin weight-62kg
26	Raema Lisa Rumbewas	Bronze	2008 Beijing	Weightlifting, Women’s fin weight-53kg
27	Triyatno	Silver	2012 London	Weightlifting, Men’s fin weight-69kg
28	Citra Febrianti	Silver	2012 London	Weightlifting, Women’s fin weight-53kg
29	Eko Yuli Irawan	Bronze	2012 London	Weightlifting, Men’s fin weight-62kg
30	Tontowi Ahmad and Liliana Natsir	Gold	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Badminton, Mixed Doubles
31	Sri Wahyuni Agustiani	Silver	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Weightlifting, Women’s fin weight-48kg
32	Eko Yuli Irawan	Silver	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Weightlifting, Men’s fin weight-62kg
33	Greysia Polii and Apriyani Rahayu	Gold	2020 Tokyo	Badminton, Women’s Single
34	Eko Yuli Irawan	Silver	2020 Tokyo	Weightlifting, Men’s fin weight-61kg
35	Windy Cantika Aisah	Bronze	2020 Tokyo	Weightlifting, Women’s fin weight-49kg
36	Rahmat Erwin Abdullah	Bronze	2020 Tokyo	Weightlifting, Men’s fin weight-73kg
37	Anthony Ginting	Bronze	2020 Tokyo	Badminton, Men’s Single

Since many years ago, Indonesia won so many medals at Olympic Games that are similar within category sports competitions in Indonesia. The medal becomes the biggest pride for Indonesia among other countries. Moreover, for the athletes, they become the new role model for Indonesian common athletes.

The medals category in Indonesia parted with the types of gold medals, silver medals, and bronze medals. Such as another Olympic in some countries, the Olympic medallist in Indonesia will get wonderful prizes from the government.

So, there are some of the lists of the Olympic Medalists of Indonesia from time to time. Most of those medals were won at badminton competitions which becomes one of the most popular sports in Indonesia. That’s different from some unusual sport in Indonesia which is still played by some Indonesian.

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