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1. Success at 26th SEA Games and ASEAN Para Games
Aiming to have 70 gold medals and enter the top three at SEA Games, Vietnamese athletes actually won 96 gold, 92 silver and 100 bronze medals.
Vietnam ranked third in the medal tally, with 40 gold medals more than the fourth country – Malaysia. Many of its gold medals came from martial arts, track-and-field, gymnastics, swimming, shooting, fencing and wrestling.
After the SEA Games, Vietnam’s disabled athletes played well at the Para Games. Vietnam ranked fourth at the event, with 44 gold medals.
2. Le Quang Liem ranks second at Dortmund
In August, he successfully defended his second position at the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Germany, after a draw with Netherlands's Anish Giri. Liem gained 5.5 points with nine draws and one win, behind Russian Vladimir Kramnik, who won the championship. Liem entered the top 30 chess players in the world.
At the 26th SEA Games, Liem won a gold medal for Vietnam.
3. Hanoi ACB FC’s boss Nguyen Duc Kien’s criticism makes great changes.
After 11 years, Vietnam’s first professional football tournament V-League has experienced great changes after Hanoi ACB FC’s Chairman Nguyen Duc Kien criticized the Vietnam Football Federation’s weakness and Vietnamese referees’ bad acts. Kien called for changes at VFF and V-League.
Kien’s speech was warmly supported by football fans and FCs. Kien and football investors built the plan to set up the Vietnam Professional Football Company (VPF). This company was inaugurated on December 14, bringing new hopes for Vietnam’s football.
The company will run the V-League from the 2012 football season.
VFF – Vietnam’s football governing body, contributes 35.6 percent of the share capital of the company, while 14 V-League clubs each contribute VND1 billion (US$48,100) to hold totally 64.4 percent.
As shareholders of the company, both the VFF and 14 clubs will have the rights and responsibilities in making major decisions, including the hiring and firing of the company personnel.
The company will work on behalf of the VFF and clubs to take full responsibility towards match attendance, refereeing, and other organization tasks in running competition at the league.
The company will hold annual shareholders’ meetings under Vietnam’s business law.
4. A year of triumph for swimmer Hoang Quy Phuoc
Phuoc won two gold medals for men’s 100m freestyle and men’s 100m butterfly categories at the 26th SEA Games. He has also got a ticket to the Olympics 2012.
5. Ha Thanh wins world bronze medal
Thanh has just won a gold medal at an international gymnastics competition in Japan.
6. Vietnam’s chess outstrips China for the first time
After many years of being inferior to China, Vietnamese chess players Nguyen Hoang Lam and Ngo Lan Huong performed outstandingly at the Asian Chess Championship 2011, to win two gold medals and outstrip China.
7. Truong Thanh Hang takes an Asian gold medal
Runner Truong Thanh Hang had a successful year, with an Asian gold medal for women’s 800m category in July and two gold medals for women’s 800m and 1,500m categories at the SEA Games 2011.
8. Queen of Speed Vu Thi Huong losses her crown
While 2011 was a good year for runner Truong Thanh Hang, it is a bad one for “Queen of Speed” Vu Thi Huong.
Due to a serious wound at Germany’s Borsig competition, Huong could not defend her two championships (women’s 100m and 200m running) at the 26th SEA Games.
9. Many Vietnamese athletes win tickets to the Olympics 2012
By the end of 2011, many Vietnamese sportsmen have got tickets to the Olympic London 2012, including: gymnast Phan Thi Ha Thanh, swimmer Hoang Quy Phuoc, Taekwondo artist Le Huynh Chau and Judo artist Van Ngoc Tu.
10. Young talents appear
Some young sports talents appeared in 2011, and they are said to be Vietnam’s great hopes in the future, including: swimmer Hoang Quy Phuoc, track-and-field athletes Duong Thi Viet Anh and Duong Van Thai, gymnast Phan Thi Ha Thanh, etc.
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