INDONESIA'S FIRST MEDAL AT ASIAN GAMES 2026: SERAF NARO SIREGAR WINS WUSHU BRONZE
Seraf Naro Siregar won Indonesia's first medal at Asian Games 2026 with a wushu bronze. His 9.720 score tied silver and sat 0.003 behind gold.
He went first, matched the silver medalist's score, and still finished third. Here is how 9.720 points became Indonesia's opening medal in Nagoya.
At a glance
- Score 9.720
- Gap to gold0.003 points
- Field size21 athletes
- Medalist's age25
Seraf Naro Siregar went first, which is a lonely spot in a 21-athlete field. He set the score, then watched everyone else try to beat it. Two athletes finished ahead of him, and one of them had the exact same score.
That is how Indonesia's first medal at Asian Games 2026 ended up with a 25-year-old from Surabaya who scored 9.720 and stood on the podium in third.
Won Won Indonesia's first medal at Asian Games 2026?
Seraf Naro Siregar, a wushu athlete from Indonesia, won bronze in the men's changquan event at the 2026 Asian Games. He competed at the Aichi Prefectural Martial Arts Hall in Nagoya, Japan, on Sunday, 20 September 2026, one day after the Games opened. His score of 9.720 put him third, behind Kuong Chi Hin of Macau, who took gold with 9.723. Song Chi Kuan, also from Macau, won silver.
How does a tied score still end in bronze?
Here is the twist: Song Chi Kuan scored 9.720 too. Same number as Seraf, different medal. The official Asian Games 2026 Instagram account said Seraf took third based on the final result of the event, and its post did not spell out the tie-break. Kuong Chi Hin's 9.723 was only three-thousandths of a point higher, and Macau, a city of fewer than 700,000 people, took gold and silver.
Changquan, or "long fist," is the fast, loud side of wushu: high kicks, spinning jumps and landings that thud on the mat. There is no opponent. Judges score each routine, and the number is the whole argument.
Why does Indonesia's first medal at Asian Games 2026 matter?
Indonesia came to Aichi-Nagoya aiming for at least four gold medals, according to Narasi. The Games opened on 19 September, and the Merah Putih contingent had no medal until Seraf finished on Sunday. His bronze opens the tally.
Wushu is carrying more than one hope. Seraf, Samuel Marbun and Tharisa Dea Florentina are the three Hangzhou 2022 medalists returning to compete in Aichi-Nagoya.
Tharisa faces Jenifer Kilapio of the Philippines in the women's 52 kg sanda quarter-finals at 16:00 WIB on Sunday. Samuel meets Bexultan Koskenov of Kazakhstan in the men's 65 kg quarter-finals on Tuesday, 21 September.
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Who is Seraf Naro Siregar?
Seraf was born in Surabaya on 17 September 2001. His international debut came at the 2019 World Wushu Championships, where he won duilian gold with Edgar Xavier Marvelo and Harris Horatius, a result the trio repeated at the 2019 SEA Games. At the 2021 SEA Games he won gold in combined daoshu and gunshu and bronze in changquan. Medcom's profile also lists a daoshu gold at the 2026 Taolu World Cup.
What makes this bronze harder than it looks?
Changquan is not Seraf's main event. His Hangzhou 2022 bronze came in the combined daoshu and gunshu event, which uses a broadsword and a staff. In 2025, he took silver at the World Games in Chengdu in a combined changquan, daoshu and gunshu contest.
He also prepared with pain in his knee, according to Kompas. He turned 25 on 17 September, three days before the medal. Afterward, he first thanked God for guiding his preparation, then talked about the field.
"The competition in this event is extremely tight."
Seraf Naro Siregar, after the event (translated from Indonesian)
Indonesia's medal table now reads one bronze. Seraf's result shows how thin the margin can be: one routine, one score, and a tie that still did not earn silver.
