Coach made a reasonable move, Pham Thi Hong Le won the SEA Games gold medal for the first time

In the final of the women’s 10,000m content, the Vietnamese athletics team has two athletes competing, Pham Thi Hong Le and Lo Thi Thanh. In which, Hong Le was evaluated as the leading candidate for the gold medal.

The athlete born in 1998 proved to have no opponent on the women’s 10,000m run. She always created a distance of half a lap from the second runner. Until the last 50m, Hong Le was still strong enough to accelerate and dash to the finish line alone with a record of 35 minutes 56 seconds 38.

Hong Le officially became the SEA Games champion after only winning silver at the women’s 10,000m and bronze medal at the 30th SEA Games women’s marathon in the Philippines at the end of 2019. This is the 17th gold medal in athletics of the Vietnamese delegation on the evening of May 18. , officially completed the target of winning from 15-17 gold medals to rank first in the whole team for the third time.

This year, Hong Le was transferred to focus on 10,000m, in which she holds the national record of 34 minutes 01 seconds 59 (34:01.59) set at the 2021 national championship. Hong’s 35:56:38 record Le today has not surpassed her own national record, but it is a very encouraging achievement.

The small girl weighing only 42kg finally got the first SEA Games gold medal in her career and it was a reasonable tactical calculation by coach Tran Van Sy, who decided to let Le focus only on the 10,000 content. m and sent 30th SEA Games champion Pham Thi Hue to the marathon, the content of which Le won bronze nearly 3 years ago.