Anelies Serafi Unani Fastest Female Sprinter in South East Asia

Anelies Serafi Unani incised record time of 11.69 seconds in the 100 meters sprint final of the SEA Games XXVI in Palembang, South Sumatra. Runners Thailand, Nong-nuch Sangrat, also posted the same time. But Serafi have relatively faster reaction time, ie, 0.172 seconds, while the Nong-nuch react 0.169 seconds. Gold medal fell into the hands of Serafi. With the acquisition, Serafi successfully mating gold medal 100-meter sprint with 100 meters gold sons, Franklin S. Buruni achieved.

Achievement had been a dream come true for Serafi. He became Southeast Asian sprint queen, a dream of a little girl who started practicing athletics in East Java at a very early age, 7 years. Thanks to high confidence and hard work over the years, Serafi able to realize the dream once dismissed curse for more than a decade that haunts athletic Indonesia: sprinter daughter would not win against the sprinter Thailand.

Indonesia was the last time gold medal sprinter through Irene Joseph at the SEA Games 1999 in Brunei Darussalam. '' I feel happy and proud, but it (the title) this gives the sense that I have to work harder,'' he told Mira Legian Mellya of Slot.

Sera's love, as he is usually called, at the world athletics lowered his father, Johan Unani, players Persebaya 1980s. '' My father asked me to accompany her like jogging,'' he recalled. Seeing his running talent, in 2001, the father entering Sera in athletic clubs Mas Pure Morning (FMM), a club that was formed by PT Fajar Mas Murni, a private company that has looked at the world athletics.

A year joined the FMM, Sera directly pack Sport Student achievement by winning the East Java. At that time, she was in first grade junior high school Corals Petra 2, Surabaya. He then joined as an athlete representing East Java area in the event the National olaharaga Week (PON) Palembang in 2004. At that time, he only gets a bronze medal with three other friends in a number of 4 x 100 meters relay.

A year later, she was born in Surabaya, February 17, 1989, it towed to Jakarta by the Executive Board of the Indonesian Athletics Association (PASI PB). He was drafted in the national training camp PB PASI athlete. The same year, Serafi appointed to represent Indonesia in the ASEAN Meet Europe (ASEM) in 2005 and won the gold medal for the 100 meters. In addition to the 100 meters, Sera also won a silver medal for the 200 meters.

After that, various accomplishments achieved in a number of local championships such as PON East Kalimantan. He also got a bronze medal for the rarely run 100 meters in the Asian Junior Championship, Jakarta.

Various achievements Serafi him elected in Mainstay Athlete Program (PAL) was initiated by the Ministry of Youth and Sports in 2009. And reached its peak in the SEA Games XXVI. Sera realized that the achievement he gets there is currently nothing. He had to work harder to maintain current achievements and higher achievement. '' I do not want off guard because when I was not looking, people will quickly replace me,'' she said.