The Vietnamese delegation welcomed the “storm” of gold medals, leaving their opponents far behind
The “storm” of gold medals of the Vietnamese delegation
The first gold medal of the Vietnamese delegation on May 15 belonged to athlete Pham Tien San. In the triathlon (running and cycling), Pham Tien San finished first with a record of 1 hour 55 minutes 57 seconds, ahead of Indonesian opponent Rudi Febriade.
The journey to the gold medal sea Games of athletes from Bac Giang full of hardships. While still competing in the Vietnamese track and field team, Pham Tien San attended the SEA Games three times, but only won silver medals. He practiced a lot of different events from obstacle running, 10km running, marathon before falling in love with 2 pentathlons.
Pham Tien San won a gold medal in the pentathlon
The emotional story of Pham Tien San is an inspiration for the Vietnamese sports team to continue to thrive on a busy day of competition.
On the track and field, Nguyen Thi Oanh continued to show great performance with the gold medal in the women’s 3000m obstacle course. Other expected names of athletics such as Nguyen Van Lai, Nguyen Thi Huyen, Pham Thi Diem and Nguyen Tien Trong also brought home the gold medals.
Nguyen Thi Oanh had 3 gold medals at SEA Games 31.
Nguyen Van Lai celebrates the victory
Nguyen Thi Huyen (middle) is still the “golden girl” of Vietnamese athletics
The competition in swimming is somewhat more difficult for the Vietnamese team. However, Tran Hung Nguyen also managed to get a gold medal in the men’s 400m medley.
Tran Hung Nguyen broke the SEA Games record to win gold
Wushu “Gold Mine” as usual continuously reported good news. 6/8 content of cheering on May 15 ended with the victory belonging to Vietnamese athletes. While Hoang Thi Phuong Giang took the throne in the content of the women’s rights school performance.
Vietnamese chess showed its superior strength when it won the second gold medal at the 31st SEA Games. The couple Ha Van Tien and Nhat Quang won the men’s team blitz event. Chess also spoke with the men’s standard chess gold belonging to grandmaster Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son.
Athlete Tran Hoang Duy Thuan won the gold medal at the 31st SEA Games for the second time when he won the mixed doubles event. Before that, he was crowned in the 75kg weight class.
Dancesport had a great day with 5 gold medals. In which, the pair Nguyen Trung Kien – Pham Hong Anh won 2 gold medals and the pair Nguyen Doan Minh Truong – Dang Thu Huong got 3 gold medals.
At the end of the day, the Vietnam Wild Rift Alliance esports team put their name on the gold board after an impressive victory over Thailand in the final. The Vietnamese team won the championship with a record of winning without losing a single game throughout the tournament.
Ranking of SEA Games medals by the end of May 15
Winning 27 gold medals on May 15, the Vietnamese sports delegation now has a total of 66 gold medals in hand and is firmly at the top. The distance that Vietnam created with the second-ranked delegation, Thailand, has reached 42 gold medals.
Ranking of SEA Games medals by the end of May 15
Not only sports that are good for promoting their strengths, less familiar ones are also achieving impressive achievements and creating a “storm” of gold medals.
Among the remaining groups, Thailand is gradually showing a slight advantage over the Philippines, Indonesia or Malaysia. They are on their way towards their goal of taking second place overall.
Thanks to the silver medal won in the men’s 5000m athletics event by athlete Felisberto De Deus, the Timor Leste team finally escaped from the scene of “empty hands”. However, Timor Leste is still below Laos due to the inferior number of bronze medals.
Tomorrow, May 16, the 31st SEA Games will continue to be exciting with a total of 47 sets of medals awarded. All sports teams are determined to make a breakthrough.
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