Athlete Tran Nhat Hoang of Khanh Hoa has just been called for the national athletics team to prepare for the upcoming SEA Games 30 held in Philippines after he gained 400m gold medal at the national athletics championships 2019, which ended recently in Ho Chi Minh City.
Athlete Tran Nhat Hoang of Khanh Hoa has just been called for the national athletics team to prepare for the upcoming SEA Games 30 held in Philippines after he gained 400m gold medal at the national athletics championships 2019, which ended recently in Ho Chi Minh City.
Hoang’s claimed the gold with just a mere 0.004 seconds faster than the runner-up. The achievement of Hoang amazed his coach Le Dinh Hai. Hoang is a competent athlete who has always shown a lot of energy and enthusiasm in practice. He also won many medals at the domestic tournaments for young athletes. However, the fact that Hoang overcame many senior athletic athletes over the country such as Tran Dinh Son and Quach Cong Lich to obtain the gold medal was still a great surprise to many people.
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Hoang, who is only 19 years old, was until recently unknown in Vietnam’s athletics tournaments. Prior to this year’s national championships, Hoang was not fully recovered from his foot injury, which caused him not to be able to compete at his best. Therefore, Hoang was just expected to perform as well as he could. Reportedly, Hoang’s best achievement at the junior tournament was 47 minutes and 47 seconds, which was 0.1 second more than athlete Quach Cong Lich, who has been a national record holder.
In the first 300 meters of the 2019 national championships, athlete Tran Dinh Son (born in 1997) always led the race. However, in the final period, Hoang made a fine sprint and crossed the finishing line in 46.463 seconds ahead of Tran Dinh Son, who clocked a time of 46.467 to finish second.
Reportedly, Quach Cong Lich, who is the holding national record of 45.99, and Tran Dinh Son are still the two most promising athletes of the national team in men’s 400m at SEA Game 30. Tran Nhat Hoang of Khanh Hoa is expected to improve the quality of the team in men’s 4x400m. In two months of training for SEA Games, if Hoang can maintain his achievement, running 400 meters in 47 seconds, he will probably have a chance to compete in men’s individual 400m.
More than 15 years ago, Khanh Hoa’s athletic players such as Khanh Doan, Thu Lan, Truc Van, and Hong Hanh performed well and contributed to the achievements of Vietnam’s sports delegation in SEA Games 21 and 22. They were also the pride of Khanh Hoa’s sports at that time. However, since then, young athletes of Khanh Hoa have struggled in following in the footsteps of their seniors. Therefore, the gold medal of Nhat Hoang at the 2019 national athletics championships as well as the fact that he was called for the national athletics team is a great encouragement to Khanh Hoa’s athletics.
An Nhien
Translated by H.N
