Vietnamese athletes bagged 18 gold medals at the Vovinam World Championship 2023 which took place from November 24 to 30 at Ho Chi Minh City-based Phu Tho Indoor Sports Hall.

The 7th World Vovinam Championship kicked off in Ho Chi Minh City on November 24, with the participation of more than 650 athletes from 35 countries and territories worldwide.

Vovinam-Việt Võ đạo, a traditional Vietnamese martial art, has been listed as the country’s national intangible cultural heritage by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Vovinam (Vietnamese martial arts) performances at the 32rd Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 32) in Cambodia showed regional countries’ adequate investment in developing the sports, according to insiders.

Vovinam has not been a permanent sport competed at the Southeast Asian Games; however, the increasing number of competing countries in recent tournaments shows that it has been extensively welcomed.

Some 1,620 students from 300 primary, secondary and high schools in HCM City are competing in the third Phu Dong Sports Tournament for the Vovinam Nestlé MILO Cup, 

Việt Võ Đạo (vovinam) martial art grandmaster Nguyen Van Chieu passed away early yesterday morning aged 71, leaving behind an incredible legacy in the sport.

The HCMC government will organize a festival highlighting the cultures of Vietnam and other countries from November 29 to December 1.

Traditional Vietnamese martial arts have a variety of schools. Nowadays, they are becoming more and more popular to foreign learners.

Traditional martial arts have been developing for centuries in Vietnam, with hundreds of styles nationwide, including Nam Hong Son, Tay Son Binh Dinh and Vovinam. 

 The Ho Chi Minh City 2016 International Martial Arts Festival will be held from April 22 to24.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Master Le Hai Binh, Vice General Secretary of the Vietnam Vovinam Federation, said Vietnam would ask for UNESCO’s recognition of Vovinam as an intangible cultural form.

 Myanmar has introduced the Vietnamese martial arts Vovinam into the curricula of two national sport academies in Yangon and Mandalay, according to Quan doi Nhan dan (People’s Army) newspaper.

 Viet Nam successfully won a berth at the Asian Football Confederation U-19 Championship in Bahrain next year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – First introduced in 2001 in Africa, vovinam, a world-famous Vietnamese martial arts, has quickly become popular and is now being practiced by more than 22,000 people in Algeria.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vovinam, a unique Vietnamese martial arts form, is going to be featured in a Hollywood action film that will be shot by the end of this year.

 The US news cable CNN has arrived in Vietnam to produce a reportage on traditional Vietnamese martial art (Vovinam).

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 VietNamNet Bridge – Vovinam – the martial art created by Vietnam - wins the strong support of five countries for a chance to appear in the 28th Southeast Asia Games, said Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Olympic Committee – Mr. Hoang Vinh Giang.