Mohammad Sarengat, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Indonesian sprinter
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Place of Birth: Banyumas, Indonesia
About Mohammad Sarengat
- Mohammad Sarengat (October 28, 1939 – October 13, 2014) was an Indonesian track and field sprinter.
- Sarengat became the first Indonesian athlete to win a gold medal at the Asian Games.
- He won gold in the 100-meter sprint at the 1962 Asian Games.Born in Kedunguter in Banyumas Regency, he grew up in Batang Regency before settling in Surabaya.
- He came from a sporting family – his uncle Mursanyoto was a goalkeeper for the Indonesia national football team.Sarengat won the gold medal in the 100-meter sprint at the 1962 Asian Games held in Jakarta in 10.4 seconds.
- The win made Sarengat the first Indonesian gold medalist at any Asian Games.
- He also won a second gold medal at the competition, winning the 110-meter hurdles with an Asian record time of 14.3 seconds.
- He also won a bronze medal in the 200-meter sprint.
- Sarengat held the Indonesian record for the 100-meter sprint (10.4 seconds) for the next twenty-two years, until it was broken by sprinter Purnomo M.
- Yudhi at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.Only two other Indonesian athletes have won gold medals at the Asian Games since 1962 - Supriyati Sutono and Maria Natalia Londa.
- Following his Asian Games win, his only other international medal of note was a silver medal in the 110 m hurdles at the 1963 GANEFO Games, where he placed behind China's Gao Jiqiao.
- Following his retirement, a football stadium in Batang Regency (his home area) was named in honour as the Moh Sarengat Stadium.After finishing his sports career he trained as a medic and went on to serve as physician for the Indonesian vice president Adam Malik.
- Sarengat died on October 13, 2014, at Pondok Indah Hospital in South Jakarta at the age of 73.
- He had been hospitalized since suffering a stroke in 2012.
- He was survived by his wife and children.
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