Vietnam wushu team ends world championships with two golds

Vietnam’s wushu team has wrapped up their tournament at the 2025 World Championships in Brazil with two gold, two silver and three bronze medals.

Vietnam’s wushu team wins two gold, two silver and three bronze medals at the 2025 World Championships in Brazil. (Photo: Sai gon Giai phong newspaper)
Vietnam’s wushu team wins two gold, two silver and three bronze medals at the 2025 World Championships in Brazil. (Photo: Sai gon Giai phong newspaper)

Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam’s wushu team has wrapped up their tournament at the 2025 World Championships in Brazil with two gold, two silver and three bronze medals.

Early on September 8 (Vietnam time), fighter Dinh Van Tam competed in the men’s 52kg sanda (combat) category, earning the silver medal. Tam was the only Vietnamese male sanda fighter to reach this year's final.

Vietnam’s two gold medals came from Nguyen Thi Thu Thuy in the women’s 56kg sanda and Ngo Thi Phuong Nga in the women’s 52kg sanda. In taolu, Duong Thuy Vi secured a bronze in the women’s spear discipline, the team’s only medal in performance events.

The championships featured male weight categories from 48kg to over 100kg, alongside female categories from 48kg to 75kg. Vietnam fielded its top athletes across both sanda and taolu (performance).

The team is scheduled to return home on September 9 to resume training for the 33rd SEA Games in Thailand later this year./.

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