Many people have not finished eating a bowl of pho, Nguyen Thanh won a gold medal in Vietnamese athletics history

(Sports news, SEA Games news) For the first time in the history of Vietnam participating in the SEA Games, athletes won gold medals in the Marathon (42km).

At 5 am this morning when most Vietnamese people were still asleep, the most extreme content of athletics – Marathon entered the competition. At more than 7 a.m., at a time when many people still hadn’t finished their breakfast, had not had time to make a bowl of pho, a bowl of vermicelli, a packet of sticky rice, a baguette, etc., excellent athlete Hoang Nguyen Thanh far outstripped the competition. finished first with a record of 2 hours 25 minutes 7 seconds 84.

Nguyen Thanh (white shirt) brought Marathon the historic gold medal

It should be emphasized that this is a historic achievement, the first gold medal of the Vietnam Men’s Marathon at the SEA Games arena. The previous best achievement of Marathon Vietnam was the silver medal of Nguyen Chi Dong at the 2003 SEA Games which was also held at home.

Hoang Nguyen Thanh, born in 1995, has been in love with athletics since childhood and has won many domestic awards such as gold in the cross-country climbing event “Conquering the top of Ba Ra”, silver medal at Tien Phong newspaper, gold medal at the national championship. family.

Nguyen Thanh won bronze at SEA Games 28 Singapore, but then he could not continue to attend the SEA Games until this congress.

Emotional when winning the first Marathon gold medal for Vietnam, Nguyen Thanh expressed: “I am so happy to become the first athlete to win the SEA Games gold medal for the Vietnam Men’s Marathon. I am very moved when I think of the moment of the national anthem of Vietnam. Vietnam resounded on My Dinh National Stadium in the presence of regional friends.My dream is to be present at the Congress. sport Asia’s largest – Asian Games and I will work hard for that goal.”

Winning silver and bronze in this event were Indonesian athlete Prayogo Agus and Thai athlete Payne Tony respectively. The fourth place athlete in this content is Le Van Tuan of Vietnam.

Nguyen Thanh won the Marathon gold medal with efforts and wise tactics. The athlete born in 1995 said that he ran behind his Thai opponent for 7 rounds and broke through to the last lap, finishing first to win gold. He assessed that the Thai opponent was of international level, so it was necessary to use reasonable tactics to defeat the opponent.

Not only bringing the first Marathon gold medal to Vietnam, as noted by the reporter, Nguyen Thanh is the first Binh Phuoc son to win the SEA Games gold medal for this locality. Not only becoming a hero in athletics, he is also the one who brings pride to Binh Phuoc province.

The excellent son of Binh Phuoc

Reasonable tactics helped him win convincing gold

Trying to overcome all difficulties and this is a great result for Hoang Nguyen Thanh