Fencer Vu Thanh An has been chosen to hold the national flag for the Vietnam sport delegation at the opening ceremony of the 29th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Malaysia on August 19.

The Promotion Fund of Vietnamese Football Talents FC (PVF) won the National U15 Football Championship after beating Viettel 2-0 in the final match at Tay Ninh Stadium on Saturday. 

 Vietnam lost to Kazakhstan 25-21, 23-25, 22-25, 20-25 in the Pool E of the SMM 19th Asian Senior Women’s Volleyball Championship at Alonte Sports Arena in the Philippines yesterday.

Twenty-five golfers will play in the final round of the TP Bank World Amateur Golfers Championship Viet Nam 2017 (WAGC) following their victory at the northern region qualifying round.

Athletics is one of the key sports that could bag gold medals for Vietnam team at SEA Games. The athletes aim to win between 10 and 12 gold medals at upcoming 19th SEA Games.

 Hosts HCM City finished on top of the National Junior Chinese Chess Championship which closed yesterday.

 Two stones found at a construction site in Quang Ngai City last week are vestiges of a complex of Cham towers that used to stand in the area more than a millennia ago, officials believe.

As many as 100 43-inch smart TVs, worth over $70,400 in total, will be awarded to Vietnamese gold medalists at the SEA Games 29 to take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from August 19-30. 

Vietnam suffered their first defeat at the Asian Senior Women’s Volleyball Championship’s preliminary round, losing 23-25, 19-25, 25-17, 22-25 to the Republic of Korea in Pool C, in the Philippines on August 11.

The second Asian Ju-jitsu championships opened at the Quan Ngua Sports Complex in Hanoi on August 12, attracting more than 300 athletes from across the region. 

 Overcoming psychological barrier when encountering the Thai team in the opening match would allow the Vietnamese national women’s futsal team to dream of a gold medal at the 29th Southeast Asia Games.

 Vietnam secured their second win at the Asian Senior Women’s Volleyball Championship, beating New Zealand 25-11, 25-12, 25-8 in the preliminary round.

 The national men’s hockey team set a goal to win a gold medal at the 29th Southeast Asian Games in Malaysia to heighten the sport’s position in Vietnam.

 Vietnam remain in third place in the Southeast Asian region, behind the Philippines and Thailand, as FIFA announced the men’s world rankings for August, on Thursday.

Vietnamese taekwondo artists hope that hard training under the guidance of a Korean expert at the National Sports Training Centre in Hanoi in the lead-up to SEA Games 29 will pay off in a treasure trove of medals.

 Seven Vietnamese cueists on August 9 stormed into the semi-finals round of the Verhoeven Open, a three-cushion billiards tournament held annually in Flushing, Queens, New York, according to the Vnexpress online newspaper.

 Vietnam beat Sri Lanka 25-12, 25-14, 25-17 in the first match of the Asian Senior Women’s Volleyball Championship’s preliminary round in the Philippines on Wednesday.

 Midfielder Nguyen Thi Tuyet Dung has been featured on the FIFA home page, in an article in which the world football governing agency appreciates her scoring skills.

 The annual VTV International Cycling Tournament – Ton Hoa Sen Cup – will kick off on September 2 with the participation of 84 athletes.

 Yesterday was a bad day for Ly Hoang Nam as he lost in both his singles and doubles events at the Thailand F5 Futures tennis tournament in Nonthaburi Province.