U23 players join national team training in Japan

Coach Toshiya Miura has included eight U23 players who have just finished their Asian Games stint in the national team now training in Japan for the ASEAN Football Federation Cup.

They joined 22 other teammates who flew to Japan yesterday to take part in a 20-day training course at Sakai National Training Centre, also known as J-GREEN Sakai in Osaka.

During this training, Miura will receive support from physique trainer Fujimoto Hiroo, who has recently been working online with Miura to create a suitable curriculum for the players.

Viet Nam will also play matches against three Japanese teams to enable Miura to evaluate his players' progress. The team will return home on October 16.

Gymnasts to participate in Nanning world champs

Viet Nam will take part in the 45th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Nanning, China beginning October 3.

Phan Thi Ha Thanh, Dinh Phuong Thanh, Dang Nam and Pham Phuoc Hung will be the core of the team and will shoulder the responsibility of winning titles at the nine-day tournament, to be held at the Guangxi Sports Centre Gymnasium.

The team will be competing in both the men's and women's categories.

Viet Nam place third in ASEAN futsal contest

Viet Nam won the bronze medal at the ASEAN Football Federation Futsal Championships in Malaysia last Saturday.

Viet Nam, who lost to Australia in the semi-final round, beat Indonesia, 3-1, following a penalty shoot-out in the game for third place. The official match ended with a score of 2-2.

Tran Van Vu of Viet Nam scored a double while Jaelani Ladjanibi and captain Caisa Octavianus of Indonesia scored successive goals in the 31st and 32nd minutes to level the count.

The finals saw Thailand easily defending their title by defeating Australia, 6-0, for their 10th victory in the regional championships.

Tien Minh bids adieu to ASIAD 17

Top Vietnamese badminton player Tien Minh had to bid farewell to the 2014 Asian Games (ASIAD 17) after losing 1-2 to Malaysian rival Lee Chong Wei in their third round clash on September 27.

Minh led the first set 23-21.

However, the situation was reversed in the two consecutive sets, which ended with scores of 21-16 and 21-17 in favour of the Malaysian competitor.

After Minh’s failure, the Vietnamese badminton team has concluded all events at ASIAD 17.

Vietnam earned one bronze medal in shooting on September 27. With 1 gold, 6 silver and 19 bronze medals, Vietnam is now ranked 13th overall in the Asian Games’ standings.

ASIAD 17: Vietnam bags another bronze in Sepak Takraw

The Vietnamese female team lost to Thailand 0-2, securing a bronze medal in Sepak Takraw at the 2014 Asian Games (ASIAD 17) in the Republic of Korea on September 27.

In the medal tally, Vietnam now has 1 gold, 6 silver and 20 bronze medals.

On the same day, Vu Thi Huong placed second in 100m race after clocking 11s69, earning a berth to the final round.

In wrestling, Vietnamese player Ly Thi Hien defeated Uzbekistani Sultamuratova Aziza 5-0 in 63kg category. She next faces Jakhar Geetika (India) to vie for a bronze medal on September 27 evening.

Viet Nam takes home three medals

Viet Nam took home three medals for swimming and shooting yesterday in Incheon, South Korea, but neither team's stars made it to gold as hoped.

Markswomen snatched two medals in the 10m running target events at the 17th Asian Games.

Trio Nguyen Thi Thu Hang, Dang Hong Ha and Nguyen Thi Le Quyen unexpectedly shot 1,106 points, ranking second behind their Chinese rivals, who won with a total of 1,148 points in the 10m running target team event.

Three hours later, Hang stepped onto the podium for the second time that day. She won a bronze for the 10m running target individual class, after beating Chinese opponent Yang Zeng in a third-place play-off.

Li Xue Yan of China and her teammate Su Li took the gold and silver, respectively, at the Ongnyeon International Shooting Range.

The Vietnamese women's medals partly relieved the shooting team's sadness when their key athlete, Hoang Xuan Vinh, didn't perform as well as predicted in the men's 25 centre-fire pistol individual (fifth position) and team (fourth position) events.

Vinh, who ranked second in the previous ASIAD in Guangzhou, was expected to repeat his success.

Swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh Vien pocketed her second bronze medal at the Games as she finished third in the women's 200m backstroke pool.

Akase Sayaka of Japan got the gold, followed by Chinese Chen Jie.

Vien also shocked the delegation when she failed to qualify for the final of the 200m individual medley event. She had carried the nation's hope of winning a gold for the event after she took a title at the August Youth Olympics Games in China.

Viet Nam's only badminton athlete, Nguyen Tien Minh, advanced to the quarter-final round of the men's singles.

Minh, No 23, beat Mustofa Ihsan of Indonesia yesterday 21-19, 21-13 in about a half hour.

Next, he will face a huge obstacle: Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia, ranked No 1 in the world, who defeated Parupalli Kashyap of India 21-12, 21-11 in another quarter-final match.

Minh and Lee have known each other for many years. In all the matches they've played, Minh could only beat the Malaysian ace once, five years ago.

So far, Viet Nam has bagged one gold, six silvers and 18 bronzes.

Amateur hits hole in one in Quang Nam

Vietnamese amateur golfer Tran Ngoc Phuong scored a hole in one at the Quang Nam province's Montgomerie Links golf course on Thursday.

Phuong took a 188-yard shot to hit a bona fide hole in one at the 11th hole during a practice session at the course.

He is the 16th golfer to hit a hole in one at the 11th hole since 2009.

Sixty golfers have hit their perfect hole in one at the course.

Ngoc beats Zvereva in World Championships

Vietnamese chess player Luu Ha Bich Ngoc was placed third in the World Youth Chess Championships' girls' U8 category in South Africa yesterday.

Ngoc defeated Russia's Zvereva Margarita in the seventh round and scored 5.5 points.

Davaakhuu Munkhzul of Mongolia and Eswaran Aksithi of the US are in the top two positions respectively.

Ngoc, seeded No 31, will meet Aksithi in the next match.

Ngoc's teammate Nguyen Anh Khoi, however, dropped out of the top 10 in the boys' U12 category.

Former U10 champion Khoi suffered his first defeat in the tournament when he lost to No 2 seed Teclaf Pawel of Poland.

Khoi will next play Sargsyan Shant of Armenia in the eighth round.