At Olympic Tokyo 2020, 4 athletes from Ha Noi will be competing in the sports including Do Thi Anh Tuyet (archery), Dinh Thi Hao (rowing), Dinh Phuong Thanh (gymnastics) and Nguye Thi Tam (boxing). According to the fixed tournament timetable, archery Do Thi Anh Nguyet will be taking part in the classification round for women’s singles at 7-9 am on 23 July before the official competition as of 7 am on 27 July. The final round for women’s singles will take place at 14.35hrs on 30 July.
Archery Do Thi Anh Nguyet to compete at the classification round on 23 July.
Apart from competing in the the women’s singles, she will be with her teammate Nguyen Hoang Phi Vu to compete for the synchronized content at Olympic Tokyo 2020.
Dinh Phuong Thanh (gymnastics) will be competing overally on 24 July at Ariake Gymnasium. He was able to win the seat at Olympic Tokyo 2020 due to the postponement of Asia Gymnastics Championship.
Ha Noi gymnast Dinh Phuong Thanh competes for combined contents at Olympic Tokyo 2020.
On 24 July, Dinh Thi Hao-Ha Noi player will be with her teammate to participate in the classification competition for rowing – women’s doubles. If they had a chance to go further for medal scrambling, Vietnamese athletes would join the semifinal competition at 9.38 am on 27 July and afterwards was the finals at 8.10 am on 29 July. Also present at Olympic Tokyo 2020 is Nguyen Thi Tam-Ha Noi boxer who has got sufficiently 190 points after having gone through the tournaments organized by the World Boxing Federation – with a just bare points to gain a right to attend Olympic Tokyo 2020. She will be competing for women’s fight weighed 52kg. The knockout round will be at 9 am on 25 July. And other following fights of this round will be held consecutively until evening of the same day. At Olympic Tokyo 2020, boxer Nguyen Thi Tam (51kg) is also a hope for Viet Nam’s sports to take a medal. According to the flight schedules, on 18 July night, the flight no. JL752 of Japan Airlines will carry Viet Nam delegation consisting of 25 members from Noi Bai to narita airports for Olympic Tokyo 2020.
As stated by the Head of Viet Nam sports delegation at Olympic Tokyo 2020 Mr. Tran Duc Phan, the year of 2021 continues to be the one of particular difficulty with the pandemic Covid-19 which has been affecting comprehensively and hugely all countries in the world, including Viet Nam. The tournaments both due to be held in Viet Nam as well overseas have been regularly postponed, cancelled, especially those are under the classification rounds to obtain rights to participate in the Olympic Tokyo 2020. Against that background, Viet Nam sports has been striving to find solutions to help athletes have chances for competition, shoulder-rubbing, experience accumulation and psy and expertise consolidation before attending the Olympic. Coupled with that, after nearly 2 year of preparations, with the utmost endeavours to overcome all hardships and challenges, and with a craving for the national prestige and reputation, Viet Nam sports has been able to have 18 athletes qualified to participate in Olympic Tokyo-2020.
By Journalist.