Thao recorded her personal best of 6.44m at the third attempt against the first of 6.35m.
Londa Natalia of Indonesia took the gold medal with 6.55m while Jiang Yanfei of China carried off the bronze with 6.34m.
Thisis the second medal for Vietnam’s track-and-field team at ASIAD 17. Thefirst silver was carried off by Quach Thi Lan on September 28 in thewomen's 400m event with a time of 52.06 seconds.
Vietnam has sofar won one gold, nine silver and 20 bronze medals. China leads with 112gold medals, followed by the Republic of Korea with 44 and Japan with35.-VNA