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Vietnamese athlete Truong Thi Kim Tuyen won the first gold medal for the country at the 23rd Asian Taekwondo Championship in Ho Chi Minh City.

Vietnamese boxer Tran Van Thoa will be honoured by the World Boxing Council Asia at an award ceremony set to be take place in Bangkok, Thailand, on April 30.

Bui Thi Thu Thao brought home a gold medal in the eighth Asian Indoor Athletics Championship, which has recently wrapped up at the Aftab-e Enqhelab Stadium in Tehran, Iran.

Vietnamese athlete Vo Thanh Tung brought home the first bronze in the men’s 100m freestyle-S5 with a time of 1’19.56” at the World Para Swimming Championships 2017 opened in Mexico City on December 2.

Vietnamese athlete Nguyen Thi Ngoan has won a historic gold medal at the Karate 1-Premier League in Leipzig, Germany.

Vietnamese gymnast Le Thanh Tung bagged a gold medal in the men’s pole vault at the Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships 2017, which concluded in Thailand on May 21.

Nguyen Van An of Vietnam ranked 30th out of 43 athletes in the qualifying round of the men’s slalom of Alpine Skiing at the Asian Winter Games which closed in Sapporo, Japan on February 26.

Vietnam finished the second event at the Asian Winter Games in Sapporo, Japan, on February 23, with Nguyen Duc Manh coming in last in the men’s cross-country skiing event.

Marksman Hoang Xuan Vinh won the Cup of Victory as the best male athlete of 2016 in a Gala awarding ceremony held in Hanoi on January 17.

Taking up wrestling by chance, Vu Thi Hang has stuck to the sport meant for men all her life and has made her name at the Rio Olympics this summer.

Vietnamese athlete Do Ngan Son won the Phu Quoc International Marathon on June 11.

Vietnam’s top swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh Vien has been named one of Asia's five best female swimmers by US based Swimswam magazine.

Nguyen Thi Oanh won another gold medal in the women's 200m event at the Thai Open Track and Field Championships on September 8.

Athlete Nguyen Van Lai won a gold medal on June 9, shattering the SEA Games’ record with 14:04.82 in the men’s 5,000-metre race at the 28th Southeast Asian Games in Singapore.