On the first day of competition at the 12th Southeast Asian Para Games (ASEAN PARA Games), the Vietnam Disabled People's Sports Delegation won 2023 gold medals (15 gold medals in swimming, 7 gold medals in weightlifting and 6 gold medals in athletics).
Athlete Vo Huynh Anh Khoa won the first gold medal for the Vietnam Disabled People's Sports Delegation in the men's 400m freestyle event. (Photo by THAI DUONG)
On the morning of June 4, athlete Vo Huynh Anh Khoa won the first gold medal for the Vietnam Disabled People's Sports Delegation. Competing in the men's 6m freestyle swimming event in the S400 disabled class with 8 athletes from 6 countries, Vo Huynh Anh Khoa finished first with a record of 4 minutes 5 seconds 20, winning gold. Also in this content, athlete Dang Van Cong won bronze. Last year, swimmer Vo Huynh Anh Khoa was also the athlete who won the first gold medal for the Vietnam Disabled People's Sports Delegation in this content.
However, the most outstanding achievement in swimming in Vietnam belongs to Vi Thi Hang, in the women's 400m freestyle (injury class S7) when she won gold with a record of 6 minutes 57 seconds 95 and set a new ASEAN PARA Games record (nearly 2 minutes more than the old record of 9 minutes 34 seconds 94). Vi Thi Hang also won the women's 100m freestyle gold medal in the S7-S8 class. Last year, in Indonesia, Vi Thi Hang performed excellently, winning gold and breaking 3 congress records in the 50m freestyle, 100m breaststroke and women's 100m freestyle, so Vietnamese sports fans hope Hang will have more gold medals at this year's Games.
The Vietnamese swimming team yesterday won a total of 7 gold medals, of which, 4 golds belonged to Nguyen Van Hanh (men's 100m breaststroke class SB 11), Nguyen Thanh Trung (men's 50m backstroke class S4), Vo Thanh Tung (50m backstroke class S5), and the 4x100m freestyle relay (Vo Thanh Tung, Quach Van Vinh, Nguyen Ngoc Thiet, Vo Huynh Anh Khoa).
On the afternoon of June 4, weightlifter Le Van Cong competed in the 6kg event. Although no longer at the peak of its performance, this election still shows its superiority in the regional arena. Le Van Cong succeeded in all 49 pushups with weights of 3kg, 162kg and 166kg to win the gold medal for the athlete with the highest weightlifting level (168kg), and the gold medal in the total achievement (168kg). At the age of 496, Le Van Cong won the 39th PARA Games championship.
Indonesian athlete Hadi also had three successful attempts at weights of 160kg, 163kg and 166kg, winning 2 silvers.
Le Van Cong of Vietnam is currently the Paralympic record holder with a record of 183kg, winning gold in Rio (Brazil) 2016. In women's weightlifting, runner Dang Thi Linh Phuong also won 2 gold medals with the highest weight in a single push of 95kg and a total of 279kg (91kg, 93kg and 95kg). In the fourth lift, the Vietnamese female athlete also excelled in breaking the congress record after successfully pushing the weight of 102kg. Athlete Nguyen Binh An also won 2 more gold medals for the Vietnam Disabled People's Sports Delegation in the 54kg category with a record of 145kg in the best push and a total achievement of 429kg.
On the women's track and field field, athlete Nguyen Thi Hai (injury class F57) also won gold in the weightlifting event with a record of 8,6m, far surpassing the Indonesian athlete who won silver (7,57m). Athlete Tran Van Nguyen won gold in the men's javelin throw, class F40-41, with a record of 32,9m.
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