At the 2020-2025 Advanced Model Conference of the Department of Sports and Physical Training, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the reigning SEA Games champion in Athletics Nguyen Thi Oanh gave an emotional speech, recounting her journey to pursue a career in athletics. She said that when she had kidney disease, she was very disappointed but did not give up or give up.
She said her most difficult time was at the end of 2014 and all of 2015 when she discovered she had glomerulonephritis, could not continue training and competing, and missed the 28th SEA Games in Singapore.
Talking about this difficult time, Oanh said: "I was lucky and happy to always have the care and encouragement of my family, teachers and friends; besides that, there was the care of the National Sports Training Center, the enthusiastic care and treatment from the Post Office Hospital... the feelings that all the people who loved me helped me overcome that time of crisis and return to my passion."
In 2016, Oanh returned to the national team. At the 29th SEA Games in Malaysia, Oanh won 02 gold medals; this achievement not only helped her complete her mission but also motivated Oanh to win excellent medals.
At the 2018 ASIAD, she won a bronze medal and broke the national record in the 3,000m steeplechase.
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Nguyen Thi Oanh shared that she started running when she was still in school and liked running since the summer of grade 4, but it was not until grade 8 that she started training and competing in school and district level athletics competitions. The Bac Giang Newspaper Competition - an annual running competition of Bac Giang province - was the tournament that brought her to high-performance sports.
"In August 2010, I was selected and recruited to the Bac Giang Sports Talent School (now the Bac Giang Provincial Sports Training and Competition Center). At first, it was probably the joy and love of training with my peers; then gradually it became passion, love and desire to train and compete. Perhaps that is also one of the motivations that has helped me stick with and accompany the sport of Athletics until now.
In 2012, I was called up to the Youth Athletics Team at the Hanoi National Sports Training Center. In the youth age group, I was honored to win a gold medal at the Asian Youth Championship, a silver medal at the 27th SEA Games and several other achievements. With these achievements and efforts in training, in 2014 I was called up to the National Team, trained and competed with experienced and accomplished seniors, helping me learn a lot of things," said Nguyen Thi Oanh.
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Nguyen Thi Oanh won 12 gold medals and held 1 SEA Games record at the 29th, 30th, 31st and 32nd SEA Games. At the National Sports Festival, she won 7 gold medals, 1 silver medal and held 4 Games records in the 1,500m, 5,000m, 3,000m steeplechase and 10,000m events.
"At the National Championships, I won my first gold medal in 2017 and I always try to train and make efforts to protect and promote those results. I won 39 gold medals at the National Championships, holding 5 national records in the 3,000m steeplechase, 5,000m, 10,000m, Half Marathon and Marathon events," Oanh added about her outstanding achievements.
Oanh believes that after many years of training at the National Sports Training Center in Hanoi, she has acquired soft skills in life: "Those things have helped me become stronger, more confident, and overcome many difficulties and challenges, including sweat, tears, and injuries during training," Oanh confided.
Nguyen Thi Oanh emphasized: "Sports have come and changed my life. Sports help me become more resilient, more courageous and more determined, helping me dare to face difficulties and challenges. There is no path paved with roses, I hope that young people will always be persistent, courageous and make breakthroughs on their path; dare to dream, dare to aspire and dare to conquer.
I am proud to be born and raised in Vietnam. I promise to continue to try and strive harder to bring many achievements to contribute to the overall development of Vietnamese Sports."
Over the years, Nguyen Thi Oanh has been voted the National Outstanding Athlete in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. She was awarded the Second Class Labor Medal by the President in 2022, 2023 and the Third Class Labor Medal in 2018, 2019; along with many Certificates of Merit from the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Certificates of Merit from the Vietnam Olympic Committee, the Vietnam Athletics Federation, the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, the Vietnam Women's Union, the Vietnam Youth Union, the People's Committee of Bac Giang province,...
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