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Vietnam’s Pencak silat team on December 15 won three gold medals at the ongoing SEA Games in Myanmar , fulfilling its target.

Wrestlers are confident they may pick up six gold medals at the Southeast Asian Games, taking place in Myanmar early December.

Nguyen Thanh Tam of An Giang province sprinted to victory in the men's road race event at the National Cycling Championships which wrapped up in Vung Tau city on October 16.

Princess Siriwanwaree, a daughter of the Crown Prince, will be among the Thai athletes to participate in the 27th Southeast Asian Games to be held in Nay Pyi Taw, the capital of Myanmar, during December 9-18, 2013.

Vietnamese athletes won six gold medals, four silvers and two bronzes to claim first place at the 20th International Track and Field Vietnam Open 2013, which ended on July 21 in Ho Chi Minh City.

Vietnamese martial artists continued their success in pencak silat at the ASEAN School Games in Hanoi on June 27, winning six gold medals.

Vietnam, with six gold, 7 silver and 12 bronze medals, ranked third at the 2 nd Southeast Asian Karate-do Championship which was held in Pampanga, the Philippines from April 18 to 21.

Vietnam has won six gold medals in the 10 th World Muay Championship 2013, which is taking place in Thailand from March 12-24.

Vietnam earned two gold medals in the ongoing Asian Taekwondo Championships to take a second-place ranking on May 6 in HCM City .

Pham Van Mach may have won his first world bodybuilding championship a full 10 years ago but he insists he is still at his peak, saiying his best years could well last until he turns 40.

Weightlifter Thach Kim Tuan has broken the national record in the men's 56kg snatch discipline at the National Youth Weightlifting Tournament in the northern port city of Hai Phong .

Vietnamese javelin-throwing athlete Nguyen Truong Giang won a gold medal and broke the national record at the 15 th ASEAN University Games (AUG), held in Chiang Mai city, Thailand from Dec. 14-23.

Vietnam won the championship title with 14 gold, five silver and three bronze medals at the third Southeast Asian Pencak Silat tournament which took place from August 5-10 in the central province of Thanh Hoa.

Vietnamese martial artists won 10 gold medals, taking the first place at the first Asian Vovinam Championships held in Kish , Iran on July 19 and 20

Vietnam took five out of six gold medals in the performance events during the opening day of the first World Vovinam Championships on July 28, leaving just one to be won by France.