Tran Hung Nguyen completes the ultimate gold medal hat-trick at the 31st SEA Games

Tran Hung Nguyen only ranked 4th in the morning qualifying round, after Ang Wei (Singapore), Pang Sheng Jun (Singapore), Dulyawat Ksewsriyong (Thailand).

However, in the final, the fisherman born in 2003 showed the strength of the defending champion to step up to the highest podium.

Hung Nguyen had a bad start but fiercely pursued his opponents before promoting his advantage in the last 50m of freestyle swimming to reach the first finish line with a record of 2 minutes 01 seconds 22.

In the same final competition of this content, swimming in Vietnam also had Le Nguyen Paul, he took the lead in half the route but was short of breath in the sprint stage, so he was not in the medal group.

Tran Hung Nguyen closes SEA Games 31 with 3 individual gold medals in the 200m medley, 400m medley, 200m butterfly and 1 4x200m freestyle relay.

Meanwhile, the Vietnamese swimming team also far exceeded the set target when currently having a total of 9 gold medals, 10 silver medals and 2 bronze medals. Singapore still dominates swimming with 17 gold medals, 9 silver medals, 10 bronze medals.

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