death_place death_date birth_place birth_date article_title name
jakarta , indonesia 13 october 2014 banyumas , central java , indonesia 28 october 1939 mohammad sarengat
 mohammad sarengat
mohammad sarengat

mohammad sarengat -lrb- october 28 , 1939 -- october 13 , 2014 -rrb- 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 -lrb- 10.4 seconds -rrb- 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 -lrb- his home area -rrb- 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 .
