18-year-old ‘hot girl’ in diving wins gold in shooting

If the 31st SEA Games held a beauty contest for athletes, perhaps Phi Thanh Thao of Vietnam shooting team will become a bright candidate because of her salty beauty. That girl has just won excellent achievements with a silver medal in the women’s 10 m air rifle event and yesterday, she brought home the gold medal in the women’s 50 m rifle 3 position event.

Fee Thanh Thao won gold medal in shooting Giang Pham

Coach Nguyen Duy Hoang exclaimed: “Thao won 451.1 points, a very high score. She kept a very stable mentality in the final. In the qualifying round with 16 athletes competing, Thao only ranked 4th, after the heavyweights in the region, athletes who had fought in Vietnam. sea ​​Games several times. Therefore, the fact that Thao recorded her name in the medal competition proved her extreme efforts. With a brilliant achievement with an individual gold medal, Thao is really talented. It is even more commendable when the youngest sister of the Vietnamese shooting team has only practiced this Olympic sport for 4 years.”

It is surprising that the girl born in 2004 was previously an athlete of the national gifted diving team. But she parted ways with diving at the beginning of 2018 and the sideways turn at the end of the year became a turning point in Thao’s peak sports career. She joined the Army shooting team and was summoned Vietnam team only 1 year later.

“Being a diving athlete, Thao has the advantage of a large lung capacity. In shooting, the movement when aiming is closely related to holding your breath. Because she can hold her breath longer, Thao maintains her stability when performing the shooting technique. Although she is still very young, Thao has a lot of patience when playing. She is not overwhelmed by strong opponents,” coach Nguyen Duy Hoang praised Thao. And the beautiful girl shyly: “I think I’m just normal.” Up to this point, Phi Thanh Thao, 18 years old, is the youngest athlete of the team Vietnamese sports won the SEA Games championship.