VietNamNet Bridge – German expert Günter Lange will personally go to Vietnam to assist Vietnam's top female sprinter Truong Thanh Hang, whose leg was broken in a traffic accident last week.

Hang had her right leg broken in a motorcycle accident during a regular practice along with her fellow athletes on a wide road along the seashore of Da Nang on August 31. According to local police, when Hang was running on Nguyen Tan Thanh Street, a motorcyclist unexpectedly hit her from behind.

Hang suffered multiple injuries to the head, face, hands, legs, and hips and had two broken bones in the right leg upon being admitted into the hospital.

German expert Lange, who worked with Hang in 2011, contacted Hang’s coach Ho Thi Tu Tam to ask for more information about Hang’s injuries. He said he would go to Vietnam personally to give appropriate physiotherapy to Hang. She can begin practicing with underwater exercises.

Lange is a consulting expert and technical manager for medium and long distance runners in many countries in the past 17 years, including Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore and Vietnam in Southeast Asia. His students won gold medals at the Southeast Asian Games. One of them broke the world record for 5,000m race.

Hang is now still in the hospital. She will have to miss the upcoming 27th SEA Games to be held in Myanmar next year.

Hang is the top runner of Vietnam. She won eight gold medals for women’s 800m and 1,500m running events from 2005 to 2011. She also won two silver medals at the Asiad 2010 and is the only one track-and-field athlete of Vietnam who has won two Asian gold medals.

Compiled by S. Tung