Tìm kiếm: sports

Female goalie Dang Thi Kieu Trinh won her third Vietnamese Golden Ball Award, while Dinh Thanh Trung claimed Best Male Player of the Golden Ball Awards for the first time.

Vietnamese athletes won 425 gold, 301 silver and 319 bronze medals this year, according to the Vietnam Sports Administration (VSA).

Vietnam's U23 team were defeated 2-3 by the RoK's Ulsan Hyundai FC in a friendly match at the Hanoi's Hang Day Stadium on December 21.

World champion Thach Kim Tuan has been nominated for the Victory Cup Award, considered Vietnam's top honour in sports.

The Men's Volleyball Championship officially kicked off on December 18 at the Ninh Binh Competition House with the participation of eight teams from eight districts in the province.

Coach Park Hang-seo of Vietnam and Zoran Jankovic of Thailand said winning a friendly tournament is not important but they want to win the third-place match on December 15 in Buriram.

The 37th Vietnam National Television Festival officially opened in Sam Son city, in the central northern province of Thanh Hoa, on December 13.

The Singaporean edition of Four Four Two magazine has named four Vietnamese players among the 25 Best Footballers in Southeast Asia, namely Anh Duc, Thanh Trung, Xuan Truong, and Van Quyet.

'Bai Choi' singing (a popular folklore style of singing in the central and south central regions of Vietnam), has been added to the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

Vietnam earned one silver and one bronze medal in the women's and men's 100m breaststroke SB5 at the World Para Swimming Championships 2017 in Mexico City on December 3.

Vietnamese martial artist, Truong Thi Kim Tuyen, brought home a bronze medal in the final stage of the Taekwondo Grand Prix 2017 after defeating her Turkish opponent with a score of 27-17 in the third-place match on Sunday.

The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) was honoured with the AFC Developing Member Associations of the Year award at the AFC Annual Awards 2017 ceremony held in Bangkok, Thailand on November 29.

Quang Nam FC captured the V-League trophy for the first time in the club's 20-year history after brilliantly trouncing Ho Chi Minh City 3-1 in the last round of the 2017 season at Tam Ky Stadium, on November 25.

The capital will host the VIII National Sports Festival from late November to early December 2018 under a Decision recently signed by Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Ngoc Thien.

An exhibition of the portraits of APEC member economies' leaders, made by combining different pieces of pottery from the southern province of Dong Nai, will be held from November 18th-21st at the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum, No.66 Nguyen Thai Hoc street, Hanoi.

Vietnam topped the Southeast Asian (SEA) Age Group Swimming Championship, which concluded at the Hassanal Bolkiah National Sports Complex Swimming Pool in Brunei on November 12.

Vietnam have made it through to the 2018 AFC U19 Championship finals with one game in hand, after edging out hosts Chinese Taipei 2-1 in their second Group H match of the qualification tournament on November 6.

The rapid chess competition of the World Youth U14, U16, U18 Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships 2017 concluded in Greece, on the evening of October 29 (local time), with Ngo Duc Tri and Nguyen Anh Khoi sealing two gold medals for Vietnam in spectacular style.

Vietnam's national futsal team finished third at the International Futsal Tournament, which concluded on October 22 in Changshu City, Jiangshu province, China.

Vietnamese sport has successfully realised the set goal of finishing in the top three nations on the medal standings at the recent 29th Southeast Asian (TTVN) Games in Malaysia. However, alongside the positive results in a number of sporting events, there still remain the failures that need to be seriously addressed by the sport sector, in an effort towards the 2018 Asian Games (Asiad), slated for next August in Indonesia.

Vietnam have won four gold, two silver, and two bronze medals at the World Bodybuilding and Physique Sports Championships in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

"Hot girl" Duong Thuy Vi brought home the first gold medal for Vietnam at the ongoing 14th World Wushu Championships in Kazan, Russia on October 1, after overcoming 16 competitors to take the top honour in the women's Qiangshu event.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on September 22 announced the theme and activities of the National Tourism Year 2018, which will be hosted by the north-eastern province of Quang Ninh.

The week-long ninth ASEAN Para Games wrapped up in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on September 23 evening.

Top female Muay fighter Bui Yen Ly added a gold medal to Vietnam's tally at the ongoing fifth Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (AIMAG 2017) in Turkmenistan, on September 21.