After two gold medals Rifky completed his third final by winning silver

Indonesian para-swimmer Maulana Rifky Yavianda completed his third final, namely in the men's 100-meter freestyle event in the S13 classification of the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Para Games by winning a silver medal at the Nagoya City General Gymnasium.

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This medal is Rifky's third medal after collecting two gold medals in the men's 100 meter freestyle S12 and the men's 100 meter backstroke S12.

The 24-year-old athlete clocked 25.51 seconds to finish second in the race, 1.12 seconds behind Uzbekistan's Egor Bolotov, who won the gold medal with a time of 24.39 seconds.

Meanwhile, Indian swimmer Ravi Karthik Budigina finished third and won the bronze medal after clocking 25.89 seconds, 1.50 seconds behind Bolotov.

Maulana, competing in lane five, recorded a reaction time of 0.68 seconds. He competed against seven other swimmers in the race, which also included athletes from Uzbekistan, India, Kazakhstan, Singapore, Iran, and Taiwan.

Kazakhstan's Viktor Volkov finished fourth with a time of 26.21 seconds, followed by Singapore's Zhi Wei Wong who clocked 26.55 seconds.

This result took Maulana to the second podium and added to the medal tally for the Indonesian contingent in the para-swimming competition at Asia's largest multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities.