Pham Thi Hong Le says goodbye to the national athletics team

Runner Pham Thi Hong Le announced her retirement from the national athletics team after seven years of service.

Poor health was the reason cited by Hong Le in her farewell announcement. "The injury has been with me for more than two years," she wrote on her personal Facebook page on the evening of December 31. "I am not sure of my national achievements and tasks."

Hong Le was born in 1998 in Binh Dinh, the fifth child in a family of six siblings. Initially, she studied martial arts but her family's circumstances did not allow it, so she switched to athletics. Hong Le won many provincial awards while in secondary school, so she was selected to join the athletics team of Binh Dinh Sports Training and Competition Center, focusing on 5,000m, 10,000m and marathon races.

Hong Le won a silver medal in the 10,000m race at the 31st SEA Games in Vietnam. Photo: Facebook/Hong Le

Her first big achievement was the bronze medals in the 5,000m and 10,000m at the 2014 National Sports Festival. Three years later, Le was introduced to the national youth team but was unexpectedly promoted straight to the senior team.

Hong Le has won one gold, four silver and two bronze medals at the SEA Games. She started with a bronze medal in the 10,000m at the 2017 SEA Games. At the 2019 SEA Games, Le won a silver medal in the 10,000m and a bronze medal in the marathon, with the image of her fainting after crossing the finish line and having to breathe oxygen.

In the next event in Vietnam, the girl from Binh Dinh focused on the 10,000 m distance and won the first SEA Games gold medal of her career, along with a silver medal in the 5,000 m. At the 2023 SEA Games, she won silver medals in the 5,000 m and 10,000 m.

For the past four years, Hong Le has often participated in amateur running competitions and often won first place in the 42 km marathon or 21 km half marathon.

Hong Duy

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