Top Vietnamese female swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh Vien failed in the women’s 200m medley at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m), which wrapped up in Canada yesterday.

 Viet Nam’s top tennis player, Ly Hoang Nam of Binh Duong Province, easily took  the men’s singles title at the National Best Tennis Players Tournament that wrapped up in Nghe An Province on Saturday.

 Top Vietnamese female badminton player Vu Thi Trang won two titles at the Yonex Sunrise Bangladesh International Challenge on Saturday.

 Saigon Heat lost to Hong Kong’s Eastern Long Lions 74–84 in their second match at the ASEAN Baksetball League (ABL) on Saturday at the HCM City’s Canadian International School Arena.

 Viet Nam topped the Southeast Asian Age Group Swimming Championships, which closed in Thailand on December 11.

 Hanoi’s chess star Tran Tuan Minh brought home a silver medal at the 2016 Philippines International Chess Championship that concluded on the afternoon of December 11 after six days of competition.

 The second leg of the AFF Suzuki Cup semifinal between Vietnam and Indonesia at My Dinh Stadium ended in a 2-2 draw after extra time, sending Indonesia into the final with a 4-3 aggregate score.

 Nguyen Diep Phuong Tram of Viet Nam won four gold medals and set a record at the first day of the Southeast Asian Age Group Swimming Championship in Thailand yesterday.

 Saigon Heat have recruited a 2.08m-tall player in their second match at the ASEAN Basketball League (ABL) today on their home turf at the HCM City’s Canadian International School Arena.

 Saigon Liberation newspaper yesterday announced the list of candidates for its 2016 Golden Ball awards.

 The Asian Football Confederation has announced the seeds for the draw of the last qualifying round of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup.

 Badminton player Vu Thi Trang will play Nguyen Thuy Linh in the all-Vietnamese women’s singles final at the Yonex Sunrise Bangladesh International Challenge today.

 This coming December 18-27 the 10th annual Thanh Nien Newspaper U21 International Football Tournament will transpire at the Thong Nhat Stadium in Ho Chi Minh City with six participating teams.

 Though the Vietnam dream of making the AFF Suzuki Cup is over, there were some decent individual displays of talent out there on the evening of December 7 in Hanoi, says FourFourTwo.

 The International U21 Football Tournament is scheduled to kick off on December 18 in HCM City’s Thong Nhat Stadium.

 Vietnam’s national men’s football team was knocked out of the Southeast Asian Football Championship after the 2-2 second-leg draw at My Dinh Stadium on December 7. 

 Vietnamese top swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh Vien on December 7 was ousted from the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m), which is taking place in Ontario, Canada.

 Viet Nam won two more silver medals at the eighth World Bodybuilding & Physique Federation Championship, which wrapped up in Thailand on December 4.

 Four Vietnamese swimmers will take part in the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m), which is scheduled to be held from December 6-11 in Ontario, Canada.

 Do Van Binh has been elected President of the Viet Nam Shooting Federation for 2016-20.