Misbaqul Ulum, the Rock Climbing athlete of Universitas Muhammadiyah Surabaya, contributed to maintaining the good name of his campus after regaining one gold and one silver medal in the Provincial Sports Week (Porprov) VII, East Java. The fourth-semester student of UM Surabaya bagged the gold medal in the men’s speed relay world record and the silver medal in the men’s boulder category. He collected the top score by beating a Gresik participant.

Porprov VII was conducted in four regencies with 47 sports branches. The competition was followed by 14.486 participants, including 10.151 athletes, 823 team officials, and 3.512 officials from the sports branch. By raising the theme “From East Java For Indonesia Towards World Championship”, the competition was conducted for three days, Monday-Wednesday (27-29/06).

As a rock climbing athlete, Ulum admitted that he has rehearsed for 6 months to prepare for the championship. “So I can compete optimally, I already prepared myself and practiced in the last 6 months. Alhamdulillah, I achieved the maximum result,” he said. The students from Surabaya also explained that he will always be ready to follow rock climbing competitions. “Our next target is to represent East Java for an International competition,” he added. In short, Ulum will follow the 2022 International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) World Cup, Jakarta, and Specta Climbing Competition (SCC).

Junaidi Fery Effendi, the Head of Student, Alumni and Innovation Administration Bureau (BAKAI), highly appreciated students with athlete scholarship. He mentioned that the Porprov championship became an important agenda in producing outstanding athletes in national and international competitions. “He has achieved 5 gold medals and 1 silver medal and it was an amazing accomplishment,” he said. [] UM Surabaya / CHERD