In the first time of organization, the swimming tournament for age groups of Khanh Hoa held recently attracted a quite large number of participants as well as received a positive response from the clubs and units in the province. The success of this tournament was expected to become a driving force to boost the swimming movement in Khanh Hoa.
In the first time of organization, the swimming tournament for age groups of Khanh Hoa held recently attracted a quite large number of participants as well as received a positive response from the clubs and units in the province. The success of this tournament was expected to become a driving force to boost the swimming movement in Khanh Hoa.
As an Olympic sport, swimming has been among the well invested sports in most of the localities across the country. An Giang, Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh City, the army, and Hanoi are some of the provinces and cites which have had strong swimming movement and quality swimming athletes.
In Khanh Hoa, this was only the first swimming movement tournament. Part of the reasons is the uneven development of this sport in Khanh Hoa and the poor facilities and limited budget for sports activities, as said by Vo Ngoc Hung, Deputy Director of Khanh Hoa Provincial Department of Culture and Sport.
The organization of the 2018 provincial swimming tournament for age groups showed that Khanh Hoa’s sports sector started to offer investment in the province’s swimming movement. The first tournament was limited to primary school and junior high school pupils and included three events: freestyle (50m and 100m), breast stroke (50m and 100m), and 4x25m relay.
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More than 100 male and female players from clubs and localities, which have invested quite well in swimming movement, took part in the 2018 tournament. Some teams like Yet Kieu Nha Trang club and Vien Dong sent quality players, who achieved high achievements at the Phu Dong national sports festivals and national swimming tournaments, to this tournament. This helped the tournament to be more competitive and attractive.
Dang Ngoc Van, physical teacher at Phuoc Tien Primary School and swimming coach at Vien Dong Club, said that this tournament was a useful and practical playground which should be maintained and organized at larger scale in order to promote the swimming movement in the province. Not only is the tournament an activity to look for and select quality players for the local team competing at the regional and national tournaments but it also creates opportunities for the players who have aptitude for or love swimming to become professional athletes.
An Nhien
Translated by H.N
