According to the results of the election of representative coaches and athletes; National excellent athletes and sports coach for people with disabilities in 2020, just announced on the afternoon of January 23, Hanoi FC striker Nguyen Van Quyet was honored the representative athlete of Vietnam Sports in 2020.
Van Quyet won the double titles of 2020.
With a score of 534, Nguyen Van Quyet of Hanoi FC ranked first in the national representative athlete category 2020. Boxer Nguyen Van Duong ranked second with 517 points, followed by two athletes Nguyen Thi Oanh 418 points) and Le Tu Chinh (411 points).
It is worth mentioning that this was the first time in the nearly 50-year history of the national representative athlete election that a football player has won 1st place. Before that, this title usually belonged to athletes of other sports.
2020 is considered a successful year for Van Quyet when Hanoi FC received double titles. Before that, Van Quyet just received the title “Golden Ball Vietnam” after his contribution, the team won the National Cup and Super Cup.
In addition to Van Quyet, Hanoi Sports also has 2 athletes and 1 coach in the top of representatives of Vietnam Sports 2020, including athlete Loc Thi Dao (Archery, 320 points), athlete Dinh Phuong Thanh (Gymnastics, 308 points) and coach Cap Manh Tan (Archery, 134 points). Along with that, in the category of 2020 National Excellent Disabled Sports athletes, Tran Thi Bich Thuy of Hanoi Chess also ranked in the top 5 with a score of 100.
In 2020, archer Loc Thi Dao of Hanoi also makes a mark with the female individual gold medal for the single-string archery content at the Asian Archery Cup 2020 in Thailand. It was also the only individual gold medal in the 3 gold medals of Vietnamese archery in this tournament (the remaining 2 gold medals are in the men’s and three-string women’s team events). Not only winning the gold medal, but Loc Thi Dao also won 1 silver medal for the single-string women’s team, 1 bronze medal for the single-string men and women events.
Hanoi gymnastics athlete Dinh Phuong Thanh also made a mark with a bronze medal for the double beam content at the World Gymnastics Cup in Australia in February 2020. This is the only international medal in 2020 for Vietnamese gymnastics.
2020 is a special year for Vietnam and the world’s Sports when most international tournaments were halted due to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, because Vietnam soon controlled the pandemic, most of its domestic tournaments were still organized.
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