Khanh Hoa's sports department is expected to have an eventful year with many targets to fulfill, such as continuing to promote movement sports activities, achieving many medals at the sports tournaments, and organizing provincial Sports Festival at all levels in order to prepare for the 13th National Sports Festival.
Khanh Hoa’s sports department is expected to have an eventful year with many targets to fulfill, such as continuing to promote movement sports activities, achieving many medals at the sports tournaments, and organizing provincial Sports Festival at all levels in order to prepare for the 13th National Sports Festival.
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| Bike race, one of movement sports activity which strongly develops in Khanh Hoa. |
In 2016, Khanh Hoa’s sports athletes attained quite many encouraging achievements. The sports movement developed strongly throughout the province. Last year, the province organized 22 provincial level sports competitions; took part in 15 sports tournaments at national level and international level and won 28 sets of medals. The provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism estimated that, until now, about 395,000 people, or 32.77% of the total population, often do physical exercise or play sports; more than 83,000 households (30.67% of the total households) were recognized as sports families. Khanh Hoa now has four sports federations (athletics, tennis, badminton, vovinam) and 12 physical exercise and sports clubs (motorcycle, golf, bicycle, morning exercise, paragliding, etc). The good results of some high-achievement sports (indoor and beach volleyball, football, and so on) are also the highlights of Khanh Hoa’s sports in 2016.
In order to perform well at the National 13th Sports Festival 2018, Khanh Hoa’s sports department in general and high-achievement sports in particular set new targets and have been striving to be able to achieve the objectives. The 2017 all-level Sports Festival of Khanh Hoa will be organized at the commune-level, district-level and province-level from March through October. Through the festival, the provincial sports department will assess the quality of sports movement of the units and localities over the province; recruit new athletes for the provincial sports teams.
Reportedly, some high-achievement sports of Khanh Hoa Sports Technique Training Center aim to attain better results than last year. Specifically, Sanest indoor volleyball team will strive to qualify for the final of the national tournament (last year’s target is top 4); the target of beach volleyball teams, table-tennis teams, traditional martial arts is taking part in more tournaments and winning more medal sets.
Director of provincial Sports Technique Training Center Tran Quang Thuong said “Khanh Hoa’s sports teams acquired quite good achievements in 2016 partly thanks to the supports from the province’s leaders. This is also a motivation for the provincial sports teams to set higher targets in 2017. With the potential, development of movement sports and advances in sports training, Khanh Hoa’s sports teams promises to be competitive with the strong ones in the country if receiving improved policies for training abroad and rewarding.”
An Nhien
Translated by H.N
