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ASEAN Para Games 12: Vietnam ranks second after first competition day

Vietnam bagged 15 gold medals, ranking second in the tally after Indonesia (23 golds) as of 20:30 on June 4 - the first official competition day of the 12th ASEAN Para Games that is taking place in Cambodia.
ASEAN Para Games 12: Vietnam ranks second after first competition day ảnh 1Weightlifter Dang Thi Linh Phuong (centre) at the 12th ASEAN Para Games. (Photo: VNA)

Phnom Penh (VNA) – Vietnam bagged 15 gold medals,ranking second in the tally after Indonesia (23 golds) as of 20:30 on June4 - the first official competition day of the 12th ASEAN Para Games that istaking place in Cambodia.

Notably, Vietnamese weightlifters and swimmers won many gold medals on the day. Dang Thi Linh Phuong won two gold  medals in the women's under-50kg weightlifting, Le Van Cong bagged twogolds in the men’s under-49kg, and Nguyen Binh An got two golds in the men’s under-54kg.

ASEAN Para Games 12: Vietnam ranks second after first competition day ảnh 2Le Van Cong receives a gold medal in the men’s under-49kg. (Photo: VNA)

Vo Huynh Anh Khoa brought home a gold medal as hecame first in the 400m men’s freestyle swimming event, clocking 5 minutes and 20.94 seconds.

Meanwhile, Vi Thi Hang set a new Southeast Asianrecord of 6 minutes and 57.95 seconds in the 400m women’s freestyle swimming event. The old recordwas 9 minutes and 34.94 seconds by another Vietnamese swimmer Le Thi Dung.

In the men's 100m breaststroke swimming in the disability level ofSB11, Nguyen Van Hanh finished first with 1minute and 24.03 seconds.

Three Vietnamese athletes gained three top positions in the50m backstroke event with a disability level of S4 including a gold medal forNguyen Thanh Trung who broke the ASEAN Para Games record with 45.59seconds, a silver for Nguyen Manh Phu with 54.60 seconds, and abronze for Danh Hoa with 58.18 seconds.

Meanwhile, Vo Thanh Tung won gold in the men's 50m backstroke swimming event in the disability level of S5 with 41.88 seconds.

The 4x100m freestyle relay swimming team including Quach Van Vinh,Nguyen Hoang Nha, Nguyen Ngoc Thiet, and Vo Huynh Anh Khoa also won a goldmedal – the sixth Vietnamese swimmers got on June 4.

In athletics, after Nguyen Thi Hai got the first gold medalin weightlifting in thewomen’s F57 event, Tran VanNguyen also defeated an Indonesian competitor to win the gold medal in themen's javelin throw in the F40-41 event with 32.90m./.

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