High-performance sports imprint of Nghe An
(Baonghean.vn) - In 2023, athletes in high-performance sports at the Nghe An Sports Training and Competition Center achieved impressive results, contributing to affirming the position of Nghe An sports in domestic and international arenas.
Precious Gold Medals
At the 2023 National Weightlifting Championship taking place from December 18 to 21 in Ho Chi Minh City, athlete Pham Thi Hong Thanh of Nghe An team won 3 Gold Medals in the Snatch, Clean and Snatch, and Total in the 76kg weight class. With this achievement, athlete Pham Thi Hong Thanh broke the previous national records set by athlete Nguyen Thi Hang Nga of Soc Trang in 2020.
Pham Thi Hong Thanh's impressive performance at the National Weightlifting Championship concluded a relatively successful year for Nghe An's high-performance sports. According to a report by the Nghe An Sports Training and Competition Center - the unit responsible for training 21 high-performance sports in the province with more than 300 athletes, in 2023, Nghe An athletes won more than 440 medals at domestic and international tournaments (137 Gold Medals, 128 Silver Medals and 173 Bronze Medals), including 3 medals won at world championships, 21 medals at Asian championships, 14 medals at Southeast Asian championships, 97 medals at national championships.
Among these, the most proud are the Gold Medals of Sepak Takraw athletes.Nguyen Thi Myat world and Asian tournaments. At the World Sepak Takraw Championship taking place in July 2023, Nguyen Thi My and her teammates Ngo Thi Ngoc Quynh, Nguyen Thi Yen, Tran Thi Hong Nhung, Tran Thi Ngoc Yen, Nguyen Thi Ngoc Huyen successfully defended the World Championship title in the 4-women team category.
More specifically, at the 2023 ASIAD held last October, in her first time as captain of an international tournament, Nguyen Thi My and athletes Tran Thi Ngoc Yen, Nguyen Thi Ngoc Huyen, Nguyen Thi Yen, Le Thi Tu Trinh and Tran Thi Hong Nhung defeated the Indonesian team in the final match of the 4th team event to win a historic Gold Medal after 17 years, since the 2006 ASIAD.
Another impressive face of Nghe An high-performance sports in 2023 is the diverNguyen Trong Dung. After the miracles in 2022 (winning 2 Gold Medals and 1 Silver Medal at the World Cup Diving Championship; winning 2 Gold Medals at the 9th National Sports Congress, including 1 national record), this athlete from Hung Nguyen continued to win 2 Gold Medals at the 2023 Asian Diving Championship, 2 Gold Medals at the 32nd SEA Games.
Besides Nguyen Thi My and Nguyen Trong Dung, 2023 is also a very successful year for a number of other athletes in international competitions such as Nguyen Viet Ngoc Hiep (Gold Medal in Karatedo SEA Games 32), Tran Thi Lan (Gold Medal in Southeast Asian Taekwondo Championship), Nguyen Thi Tu Anh (2 Gold Medals in Asian Youth Diving Championship), Le Thi Tuyet Mai (4 Gold Medals in Southeast Asian Youth Athletics Championship)...
The remarkable achievements of the province's high-performance sports teams are partly thanks to the province's attention through preferential mechanisms and policies. A typical example is Resolution No. 11/2021/NQ-HDND on Regulations on special nutrition regimes and a number of support policies for coaches and high-performance athletes in Nghe An province. Accordingly, the expenditure on nutrition regimes for coaches and athletes during concentrated training and coaching periods and financial support policies for coaches and athletes with high achievements from 2022 have all clearly improved compared to before.
Difficulties to be resolved
However, the development of high-performance sports in the province is still facing many difficulties, first of all in terms of facilities. In surveys on training, coaching and implementation of policies for athletes and sports coaches in the province this year, members of the Provincial People's Council pointed out that the facilities for training and fostering human resources for sports in the province are still inadequate and limited.
Currently, at the Provincial Sports Training and Competition Center, many martial arts, functional rooms at Vinh Stadium or practice outdoors. Not to mention the training equipment for many sports is still very lacking and in recent years has not been significantly supplemented.
In addition, Ms. Tran Thi My Hanh - Director of the Department of Culture and Sports added: "Recently, a number of central ministries, departments and branches have raised the issue of organizing a number of national and regional sports tournaments in Uncle Ho's hometown, but through surveys, the province's facilities cannot meet the requirements. The North Central Sports Complex has been planned for more than 170 hectares for many years, but has not yet been implemented, which has more or less affected the improvement of facilities."
In addition, Nghe An's high-performance athlete force is currently very thin, with more than 300 athletes enjoying the regime, so it is difficult to meet the professional requirements of the current period. This makes the 21 teams participating in the national championships lack competition for the overall position, because there are not enough athletes to participate in many events of a tournament.
On the other hand, for Nghe An Sports Gifted High School, although it has two functions of cultural education and training gifted athletes, the school has not yet carried out the task of training gifted athletes.
According to the sports development planning orientation in the Provincial Planning to 2030, with a vision to 2050, Nghe An will become a center for training and selecting talents in key sports of the North Central region, and at the same time a training support center to improve national sports achievements.
To overcome the difficulties and limitations to meet the above goals, according to Director of the Department of Culture and Sports Tran Thi My Hanh, in the coming time, the Department of Culture and Sports of the province will focus on reviewing the current policies of the Government and the province along with the requirements of sports development to proactively and actively advise the province on strong enough policies and mechanisms, creating a new face for Nghe An worthy of its stature. Along with that, the Department of Culture - Sports continues to focus on building professionalism in organization, training, coaching and education.
Goals of high-performance sports of Nghe An province in the period 2026 - 2030:
- Strive to have 700 athletes, 84 coaches, 7-10 international referees, 20-30 national referees, and 200 provincial referees.
- Strive to participate in 65 - 85 domestic and international competitions annually, achieving 270 - 320 medals of all kinds (including 18 - 20 Gold medals of the national championship); The 10th National Sports Congress will achieve 66 medals, including 18 Gold medals, 18 Silver medals, 30 Bronze medals, ranking 15 - 13th overall; The 11th Congress will strive to achieve 73 medals, including: 19 Gold medals, 20 Silver medals, 34 Bronze medals, ranking 13 - 10th; SEA Games 34, 2027, will achieve 03 - 05 medals; SEA Games 35 will achieve 05 - 07 medals; ASIAD 2030 will achieve 01 - 02 medals; Olympics 2028 will have at least 02 athletes participating in the national team.
