Indonesia produced one of its best Olympic performances ever at this year’s Paris Games, which concluded on Sunday, bringing home two gold medals for the first time in over 30 years.
Indonesia ranked 38thth place in the medal table at the Paris Games, with a gold medal in weightlifting, another gold medal in speed climbing and a bronze medal in badminton.
It was the country’s best Olympic medal result since the 1992 Games in Barcelona, Spain, when it won 24th Place with two gold medals, one silver and one bronze medal in badminton.
A total of 29 Indonesian athletes competed in 12 sports this year, the largest number of participants in two decades. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, 38 athletes competed in 14 different sports.
The nation’s hopes of further medals were dashed on Sunday after promising weightlifter Nurul Akmal failed to win a medal in the women’s -81 kg weightlifting event.
Nurul finished 11thth place after lifting a total of 245 kg in her second Olympic appearance.
She lifted 105 kg in the snatch and 140 kg in the clean and jerk, but her subsequent attempts, in which she lifted 110 kg in the snatch and 145 kg in the clean and jerk, were invalidated by the judges due to incorrect body position.
