January 19, 2012
Hoang Xuan Vinh has become the first ever Vietnamese shooter to win an official Olympics berth. Vinh won 682.4 points in the men’s 10-meter air gun event on Monday at the January 11-22 Asian Shooting Championships in Doha, Qatar. Vinh finished fourth behind the gold medal winner from South Korea, Jin Jong Oh with [...]
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January 18, 2012
Song Lam Nghe An players (yellow) mark Nigerian striker Samson Kayode Olaleye of visitors Hanoi T&T in a Super League match in Vinh city Sunday. Defending Vietnamese Super League champions Song Lam Nghe An were held 2-2 at home by Hanoi T&T in the third round Sunday. Both teams played fast football from the start, [...]
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November 22, 2011
Boxer Luong Van Toan (2nd, R) won the gold medal in the men's 81kg event. Winning nine gold medals on Monday helped to keep Vietnam in third place at the South East Asian Games being held November 11-22. Vietnam is ranked behind top-place host Indonesia and Thailand. The nine golds were grabbed by Vietnamese competitors [...]
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November 19, 2011
Vietnamese athletes earned 12 gold medals at the SEA Games on Wednesday, raising the total to 56 golds and jumping to second place behind hosts Indonesia. The 12 gold medals on Wednesday came in swimming, billiards, vovinam, free style wrestling, shooting, chess and rowing. Billiards player Ma Minh Cam closed the day with a [...]
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November 15, 2011
21-year-old Nguyen Thanh Phuc (C) at the podium after finishing first in the women’s 20km walk; Photo by Kha Hoa. With 11 gold medals on Sunday, Vietnam has won a total of 17 gold medals after two days at the 26th South East Asian Games in Indonesia. Twenty-one-year-old Nguyen Thanh Phuc won the first gold [...]
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November 12, 2011
Right fullback Au Van Hoan celebrates after doubling the score for Vietnam against Timor-Leste. The Vietnamese men’s national football team beat Timor-Leste 2-0 in their third Group B match at the 26th South East Asian Games in Indonesia on Wednesday. It had been expected to be a hard game for Vietnam because Timor-Leste was leading [...]
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November 6, 2011
Vietnam took the lead after two minutes but had to settle for a 2-2 tie with Myanmar in their second Group F match of the 2012 AFC U19 qualifiers. Photo by VnExpress. Hosts Vietnam were held to a 2-2 draw by Myanmar in their second Group F match of the 2012 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) [...]
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October 29, 2011
Le Quang Liem, Susan Polgar and Georg Meier pose for a photo in the seventh round of the SPICE Cup in Texas. Photo by VnExpress. Chess ace Le Quang Liem and Cuban rival Leinier Dominguez Perez are locked in a race for the championship at the SPICE Cup in Texas, US. After a draw in [...]
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October 28, 2011
Vietnam’s chess GM Le Quang Liem. Photo by Chess.com. Vietnam’s top chess player GM Le Quang Liem lost to Cuba’s Leinier Dominguez Perez in the fifth game of the Spice Cup held in Texas on Thursday. The defeat pulled top seeded Liem, ranked 25th in the world, to second place behind the 38th-ranked Perez. In [...]
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October 22, 2011
Phan Ha Thanh at the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Tokyo on Saturday. Phan Thi Ha Thanh took the bronze medal at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships 2011 in the women’s vault event in Tokyo on Saturday. With the achievement, Ha Thanh has won a berth in the women’s singles vault event at the [...]
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