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Indonesia is trusted to host a junior-level bridge championship for Asia Pacific entitled Asia Pacific Bridge Federation (APBF) Open Youth Championship 2018 in Bogor, West Java on April 13-20 2018. This year, according to EkaWahyuKasih the Chairman of Indonesian Bridge Association (PB GABSI), there are seven Asian Pacific countries took part the event, including Indonesia.

“Seven countries participated this year, namely Australia, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, China, The Philippines, Thailand, and the host - Indonesia. We open great chances for athletes from across the country to participate, and we sent almost twelve teams into four categories in the event,” said EkaWahyuKasih.

The four categories in the APBF Open Youth Championship 2018 are Junior U-26, Girls U-26, Youngster U-21, and Girls U-21. EkaWahyuKasih also said, PB GABSI did not send their national training athletes in the event because the national training athletes were focused on Asian Games 2018. (VOI/Steve/ART)