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Juniors to splash in Da Nang event

 VietNamNet Bridge – Regional swimmers will compete in the Southeast Asia Age-Groups Swimming Championships at Da Nang Swimming Club from December 4 to 6.

Vietnamese lifters raise the bar at int'l tournament

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese weightlifters won a silver and bronze medal at the ongoing World Weightlifting Championships in Houston, USA.

Vietnamese girl brings home silver, bronze medals from wushu champs

 VietNamNet Bridge – Duong Thuy Vi brought home a silver and a bronze medal from the ongoing World Wushu Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Vietnam bags one gold at Balkan Int’l Boxing Tournament

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has won two medals (one gold and one silver) at the Balkan International Boxing Tournament in Bulgaria, said the national boxing team training board.

Women golfers to tee off in Da Lat

 The National Amateur Women's Golf Open will be kicked off in Da Lat City on October 30.

Quoc wins national table tennis singles championship

 VietNamNet Bridge – Veteran Doan Kien Quoc won the men's singles title at the National Table Tennis Championships in the central province of Khanh Hoa yesterday.

Runners tackle Lang Co Marathon

 VietNamNet Bridge – Chris Solarz from the US and Jennifer Pasiciel from Canada won the men's and women's 42km competition at the first Laguna Lang Co Marathon races yesterday, Oct 25.

Athletes spin tales of Ultimate Frisbee

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ultimate Frisbee, a casual sport introduced to Ha Noi by expats, has grown increasingly popular through word of mouth.

Sports News 2/10

 AFC opens football coaching course; Trang enters 2nd round of Kawasaki; HCM City to host athletics event

Athletic champs lure best national competitors

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 400 athletes will take part in the National Athletics Championships at the HCM City Thong Nhat Stadium from October 9-13.

Minh goes on to third round in men's singles at Vietnam Open

 National hopeful Nguyen Tien Minh advanced to the third round of the Yonex Sunrise Vietnam Open's men's singles yesterday (August 26) in HCM City.

Le Trong Hinh sets new 400m record

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two national records were broken at the National Youth Athletics Championship in Ha Noi on August 19.

Vien ranks low in world swimming semi-final

 VietNamNet Bridge – Top Vietnamese female swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh Vien failed in the semi-final of the women's individual 200m medley of the 2015 World Swimming Championship in Kazan, Russia, yesterday, Aug 2.

Vietnamese fighters to defend vovinam title

 The World Vovinam Championship will welcome 21 delegations to compete for titles from July 29 through August 2 in Algeria.

Nguyen Thi Anh Vien, Vietnam’s number 1 swimmer

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh Vien was a phenomenon at the just-concluded 28th Southeast Asian Games in Singapore. Vien won 8 gold, 1 silver, and 1 bronze medal and broke 8 SEA Games records.

Athletes, rowers hit the finish line first

 VietNamNet Bridge – Do Thi Thao and Duong Van Thai completed their doubles, while the quartet runner broke a 24-year-old record in the women's 4x400m relay.

Vietnamese rowers win four gold medals

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Van Linh won the first gold medal for Viet Nam yesterday morning.It is also the first one for the rowing team in the Southeast Asian Games being held in Singapore.

Singapore fights match-fixing

VietNamNet Bridge – Singapore on Tuesday pledged to take tough action against fraud in sports. 

Vien, one to watch at SEA Games

 VietNamNet Bridge – Singapore online newspaper straitstimes.com called Viet Nam swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh Vien as one of 10 athletes to watch at the SEA Games, which kick off later this week.

Vietnam prepared for SEA Games

 VietNamNet Bridge – All athletes confirmed that they were ready for success at the upcoming Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Singapore.