Sri Wahyuni Agustiani Explained

Birth Date:13 August 1994
Birth Place:Bandung, West Java - Indonesia
Height:1.55 m[1]
Club:Bekasi Regency

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 and Early Career

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]

2013 SEA Games, 2014 Asian Games-2016 Summer Olympics

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]

2018 Asian Games

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]

Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418080357/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ag/sri-wahyuni-agustiani-1.html Sri Wahyuni Agustiani
  2. News: Indian lifters fail to impress at Asiad . Business Standard India . Business Standard . 20 September 2014 . 3 February 2016.
  3. Web site: Indian weightlifters off to disappointing start at Asiad . Diligent Media Corporation Ltd . 20 September 2014 . 3 February 2016.
  4. Web site: Weightlifting Database Agustiani Sri Wahyuni . iwrp.net . 3 February 2016.
  5. Web site: Sri Wahyuni, Indonesia's First Medalist in Rio Olympics . metrotvnews.com . 8 August 2016.
  6. Web site: Weightlifter Sri Wahyuni wins Indonesia first medal at Olympics . thejakartapost.com . 7 August 2016.
  7. Web site: Lifter Sri Agustiani Seals Team Indonesia's First Medal at Rio Olympics . jakartaglobe.id . 7 August 2016 . 7 August 2016.
  8. Web site: Indonesian weightlifter Sri Wahyuni apologizes for not winning gold . asiangames2018.id . 20 August 2018.