Khanh Hoa Province's traditional martial art team is gradually reviving as a competitive squad after having disappeared on the medal ranking table of the domestic tournaments for many years. The team gained ten medals at the 29th national VCT traditional martial arts championship organized recently.
Khanh Hoa Province’s traditional martial art team is gradually reviving as a competitive squad after having disappeared on the medal ranking table of the domestic tournaments for many years. The team gained ten medals at the 29th national VCT traditional martial arts championship organized recently.
The 29th national VCT traditional martial arts championship was jointly organized by the General Department of Sports and Vietnam Traditional Martial Arts Federation in Binh Dinh Province from November 13 to 17. The championship attracted the traditional martial arts teams from 16 units, provinces, cities, and industries across the country. This tournament was highly appreciated for its quality thanks to the participation of all strong traditional martial arts teams in Vietnam. Khanh Hoa Province’s traditional martial art team had prepared well for this tournament; therefore, they competed with confidence and gained ten medals of all kinds, placing fourth in team’s event.
There had been a decline in the achievements of Khanh Hoa’s traditional martial art team since they achieved a gold medal in the National Sports Festival 2014. This decline was partly because the team didn’t have enough athletes to take part in all categories since the organization committee cut down the number of categories. Since 2019, the team’s coaching board has made some recruitment and adjustment to the team’s force, which has helped to improve their achievements. With these recruitment and adjustment, Khanh Hoa’s traditional martial art team hopes to win gold medals at the National Sports Festival 2022.
Binh Dinh finished first in team’s event at the 29th national VCT traditional martial arts championship with 25 medals of all kinds (14 golds, 8 silvers and 3 bronzes). This was not a surprising result not only because Binh Dinh was the host but also because this province has always been considered as the cradle of traditional martial arts in Vietnam. The remaining positions in top five were the competition among Ho Chi Minh City, Military, People's Police, Dong Nai, and Khanh Hoa.
Khanh Hoa’ traditional martial arts athletes were not inferior to the ones of other teams in term of skills and quality. However, they were somewhat not competitive than other teams because of lack of athletes. At this year’s national VCT traditional martial arts championship, Khanh Hoa was level on gold medals with third-placed team, Military, but had fewer silver medals just because Military had more athletes to compete in more categories.
With three gold medals, two silver medals, two bronze medals, the athletes of demonstrative events proved that they have been the pivotal members of Khanh Hoa’ traditional martial arts team. The remaining gold medal of Khanh Hoa was from women’s combat event, 75kg weight category.
This year, Khanh Hoa’ traditional martial arts team has set a target to win seven gold medals in national tournaments. They won three gold medals in the national youth championship held some months ago. They will another opportunity to fulfill the target at the National VCT Cup held in Gia Lai Province in early December.
An Nhien
Translated by H.N
