Vietnamese swimmer Nguyen Huy Hoang and badminton player Nguyen Thuy Linh will start competing at the Paris 2024 Olympics on July 29.

Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Van Hung on August 31 signed a decision on the formation of the Vietnamese sports delegation to the 19th Asian Games (ASIAD), which will kick off in China in late September.

Vietnam received a rain of gold medals on May 11 afternoon at the 32nd Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) in Cambodia.

Vietnamese swimmers have bagged six gold and seven silver medals so far, basically completing their medal target set for the 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 31).

Vietnamese No.1 swimmer Nguyen Huy Hoang started his first competition day at the 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 31) on May 14 with a gold medal in the men’s 1,500m event.

Swimmer Nguyen Huy Hoang is the only Vietnamese athlete to compete in the men’s 1,500m freestyle on on July 30, the seventh day of the ongoing Olympic Tokyo 2020.

The first Vietnamese athlete to clinch a spot in the country’s 2020 Tokyo Olympics team, swimmer Nguyen Huy Hoang then suffered the disappointment of seeing the world’s largest sporting event delayed by a year due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Young Vietnamese swimmer Nguyen Huy Hoang bagged a gold medal and broke the SEA Games record in the men’s 1,500m freestyle of himself with a time of 14:58:14 on December 5.

Vietnamese swimmer Nguyen Huy Hoang snatched the gold medal in the men’s 400-m freestyle event at the ongoing 30th SEA Games in the Philippines on December 4, clocking 49.08 seconds and setting a new record for the Games.

Swimmer Nguyen Huy Hoang has become the first Vietnamese athlete to book a spot at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games in Japan.

The Vietnamese delegation brought home two silver and two bronze medals on August 24 – the sixth competition day at the ongoing Asian Games (ASIAD) 2018 in Indonesia on August 23, ranking 16th in the medal tally.

Vietnam got two more medals on the second day of the ongoing Asian Games (ASIAD) 2018 in Indonesia, raising the country’s total medals to four but it still dropped to the 16th place in the medal tally as of 22:00 on August 20.

Weightlifter Thach Kim Tuan won the first silver medal for Vietnam at the ongoing Asian Games 2018 (ASIAD) in Indonesia on August 20.