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Sri Wahyuni Agustiani
Sri Wahyuni Agustiani in 2016
Personal information
Nationality Indonesia
Born (1994-08-13) 13 August 1994 (age 30)
Bandung, West Java - Indonesia[1]
Height1.55 m (5 ft 1 in)[1]
Sport
SportWeightlifting
ClubBekasi Regency[1]

Sri Wahyuni Agustiani (born 13 August 1994) is an Indonesian weightlifter. Competing in the 48 kg body weight category she won silver medals at the 2013 Asian Championships, 2014 and 2018 Asian Games, and 2016 Summer Olympics.[2][3][4]

Biography & Early Career

2016 Summer Olympics medalists at the State Palace in Jakarta. Left-right: Ahmad, Natsir, Widodo, Agustiani and Irawan.
Agustiani with the silver medal of 2016 Summer Olympics at Bogor Palace.

Sri Wahyuni Agustiani is a Sundanese woman, born on 13 August 1994 at Bandung, West Java - Indonesia. Since she was 10 years old, she is passionate about weightlifting world, where her dad was her first teacher and inspiration at first.

She started her foray at weightlifting national competition, where she has showed her talent since junior competitions, she's start joining the women's lifting international competition at the age of 15. She won two golds and one silver at the IWF Junior World Weightlifting Championships in Kazan, Russia in June 2014, organised by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF).[5]

Before the Olympics, Bandung-born Sri Wahyuni Agustiani had already shown huge potentials after winning silver in the 2014 Asian Games held in Incheon-South Korea and gold in the 2013 Southeast Asian Games.[6]

Sri Wahyuni bring Team Indonesia sealed their first medal at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics, she won silver medal in the women's 48 kilogram category on Sunday 7 August 2016. Sri lifted 192 kilograms in total to win the silver medal.[7]

In 2018, Indonesian female weightlifter Sri Wahyuni, who competed in the women's 48-kilogram category in the 2018 Asian Games, won also silver medal. This actually the second silver medal, after the last time she get in 2014 Asian Games, Incheon.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c Sri Wahyuni Agustiani. sports-reference.com
  2. ^ "Indian lifters fail to impress at Asiad". Business Standard India. Business Standard. 20 September 2014. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  3. ^ "Indian weightlifters off to disappointing start at Asiad". Diligent Media Corporation Ltd. 20 September 2014. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  4. ^ "Weightlifting Database Agustiani Sri Wahyuni". iwrp.net. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  5. ^ "Sri Wahyuni, Indonesia's First Medalist in Rio Olympics". metrotvnews.com. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  6. ^ "Weightlifter Sri Wahyuni wins Indonesia first medal at Olympics". thejakartapost.com. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
  7. ^ "Lifter Sri Agustiani Seals Team Indonesia's First Medal at Rio Olympics". jakartaglobe.id. 7 August 2016. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
  8. ^ "Indonesian weightlifter Sri Wahyuni apologizes for not winning gold". asiangames2018.id. Retrieved 20 August 2018.