Played in Sriwijaya Promotion Center, Monday (23/9), Indonesia was deriving two athletes in men and women kata individual.
Yuli finished in the third place after defeating Assila Salma from Morocco in the last matched with a score 3-2. Meanwhile, Faizal Zainuddin did not get any medals after defeated by karateka from Egypt, Ibrahim Magdy Moussa with a score 1-4.
“Anyway, i should be able to bring medals for Indonesia. Finally i can do that, despite i lost to Turkey before. The point that i tried to play calm,” Yuli said after the match.
“It looks like my performance has decreased. Because on Women’s Islamic Games in Iran i got gold medal. But it’s fine, i will make this result today as the evaluation in the future, how i have to exercise harder than before,” she continued.
As most of the branches, the karateka also make the ISG as trials before facing SEA Games 2013. Karate so far is a branch that has tradition to give gold medals to Indonesia especially in Southeast Asia.
Tomorrow on Tuesday (24/9) Indonesia karateka will be back to compete in men and women kumite and kata numbers. (Adr)
