Agus Prayogo Failed to Win Medals

Agus Prayogo national runner, failed to donate the medals to the Indonesian contingent in the 5,000-meter run numbers on the "Army Olympiad" in Brazil.

"I'm only ranked 12 of 16 participants in the final round, held on Saturday (23 / 7) local time," said Agus Prayogo when contacted from Semarang on Sunday.

He said he entered the finish line with a time of 14:02:12 minutes, while the Kenyan runner won the gold medal, Kipto Mark, with a time of 13:06:17 minutes, also won silver runners of Kenya, Crop Vincent, with a time of 13:03:31 minutes.

Bronze medal, said the Great who also gold medalist for the 2009 SEA Games in Laos run numbers 10 thousand meters, the runners captured Bahrain, Galesa, with a time of 6.13.73 minutes.

Although it failed to donate the medal, said the runners who registered as a soldier serving in the Army and Army Secapa Bandung is, he could break the national record in its own name.

National record for the number 5,000-meter run is 14:04 minutes. "I am thankful because it could sharpen my time although it also disappointed contingent failed to donate the medal for Indonesia," he said.

In the athletic world multievent antarprajurit, the Agus Prayogo only one number off on the 5,000-meter run, while the number of 10 thousand meters off of having to perform the preliminary round through a lot.

In fact, the record time achieved by Agus Prayogo also surpassed the record on behalf of the SEA Games in Malaysia runners, Rahmad Chandra, that is 14:08 minutes was achieved during the SEA Games in Indonesia 1997. Whereas in the semifinals, followed 60 runners, he said, he could be in sixth with a time of 14:15 minutes.

He said he was appearing at the SEA Games concentration XXVI in South Sumatra and Jakarta, 11 to 22 November 2011. "I set a target to win two gold medals from 5000 and ran a number of 10 thousand meters at the Games next multievent between countries of Southeast Asia," he said.

He acknowledged, for the second number is the flagship of Southeast Asia there are no runners are able to compete but he remains wary of runners from other countries, especially Myanmar. "I heard a runner who won gold at the 2009 SEA Games in Laos was the naturalization of Russians, as well as athletes from other countries," he said.

At the 2009 SEA Games in Laos, Agus Prayogo just run down on the number of 10 thousand meters and has not gone down at 5,000 meters. "I hope to provide the best for the nation and this country," he said.