Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...
first participated at the
Olympic Games
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in 1952 and has sent athletes to compete in every
Summer Olympic Games
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since then, except for
1964
Events January
* January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.
* January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...
, due to controversy around the
Games of the New Emerging Forces
The Games of the New Emerging Forces (GANEFO) were the games set up by Indonesia as a counter to the Olympic Games. Established for the athletes of the so-called "emerging nations" (mainly newly independent socialist states), GANEFO was the name ...
, and 1980, when they participated in the
U.S.-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics. Indonesia is yet to participate in the
Winter Olympic Games
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.
The
National Olympic Committee
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for Indonesia was created in 1946 and recognized in 1952.
As of 2020, Indonesian athletes have won a total of 37 medals, twenty-one in
badminton
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, fifteen in
weightlifting
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and one in
archery
Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In m ...
. Among countries in Southeast Asia, Indonesia ranks first in terms of the number of overall medals (37), and second in the number of gold medals (8), only behind Thailand which has 10 gold medals.
Archers
Lilies Handayani
Lilies Handayani (born 15 April 1965 in Surabaya) is an Indonesian archer who won the first ever Olympic medal for Indonesia.
Together with Nurfitriyana Saiman and Kusuma Wardhani she won the silver medal in the team competition at the 1988 ...
,
Nurfitriyana Saiman
Nurfitriyana Saiman-Lantang (born March 7, 1962) is a retired Indonesian archer. Together with Lilies Handayani and Kusuma Wardhani she won a team silver medal at the 1988 Olympics, bringing the first ever Olympic medal to Indonesia. She also co ...
and
Kusuma Wardhani
Kusuma Wardhani (born 20 February 1964) is a retired Indonesian archer. Together with Nurfitriyana Saiman and Lilies Handayani she won a team silver medal at the 1988 Olympics, bringing the first ever Olympic medal to Indonesia. In the 1980s, War ...
gained the republic's first-ever podium finish, a silver medal, in the women's team event at the
1988 Seoul Olympics
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. Future married couple
Susi Susanti
Lucia Francisca "Susi" Susanti Haditono (; born 11 February 1971) is an Indonesia retired badminton player. Relatively small of stature, she combined quick and graceful movement with elegant shotmaking technique, and is regarded by many as one o ...
and
Alan Budikusuma
Alexander Alan Budikusuma Wiratama (born 29 March 1968, as Goei Djien Phang; ) is a former Indonesian badminton player who excelled at the world level from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s.
Career
In 1991 he was runner-up to China's Zhao Jianh ...
won the nation's first two gold medals in the badminton women's and men's singles events respectively at the
1992 Barcelona Olympics
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. Barcelona 1992 was also the only Games in which Indonesia won 2 gold medals. Since then, Indonesia has won a single gold medal at every subsequent Summer Olympics, all in
badminton
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, except for the
2012 London Olympics
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.
The country's most recent gold medalists are
Greysia Polii
Greysia Polii (; born 11 August 1987) is an Indonesian former badminton player specializing in doubles. She won gold medals in the women's doubles at the 2014 Asian Games, at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games and at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She ...
and
Apriyani Rahayu
Apriyani Rahayu (born 29 April 1998) is an Indonesian badminton player specializing in doubles. She and Greysia Polii are the reigning Olympic champions in the women's doubles following their win at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She won gold at the ...
, who won the
women's doubles event of badminton.
[ Their victory made Indonesia the second country after ]China
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to have won gold medals in all five disciplines of badminton at the Olympics. At 33 years and 356 days of age, Polii also became the oldest female badminton player to win an Olympic gold medal.
Medals
Medals by Summer Games
Medals by demonstration and exhibition events
Medals by sports
Medals of sports
''*Demonstration and exhibition sports are not included in this list''
Medals of demonstration and exhibition sports
''*Only for demonstration and exhibition sports medalists''
List of medalists
* Medalist of Demonstration & Exhibition Sports
Medals by individual
According to official data of the International Olympic Committee
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. This is a list of people who have won two or more Olympic medals for Indonesia.
*People in bold are still active competitors
* Medalist of Demonstration & Exhibition Sports
Olympic participants
Summer Olympics
Flag bearers
Notes
See also
* Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var ...
* Paralympic Games
The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaire ...
* Indonesia at the Paralympics
Indonesia made its Paralympic Games debut at the 1976 Summer Paralympics in Toronto, with competitors in athletics, lawn bowls, swimming and table tennis. The country has participated in every subsequent edition of the Summer Paralympics, except 19 ...
* Indonesia at the Youth Olympics
Indonesia first participated at the Youth Olympic Games at the inaugural 2010 Games. Indonesia has never participated in the Winter Youth Olympic Games.
Medal tables
Medals by Summer Games
Medals by Summer sport
List of medalists ...
* List of flag bearers for Indonesia at the Olympics
* :Olympic competitors for Indonesia
* :Paralympic competitors for Indonesia
References
External links
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