Vietnam wins first gold medal at World University Games

On August 20, Taekwondo student athlete Nguyen Thi Le Kim excellently brought home a gold medal for Vietnam in the women's individual freestyle event at the 29th World University Games in 2017 taking place in Taiwan. This is also the first gold medal in many years that a Vietnamese student has participated in the World University Games.

The World University Games are held every two years to expand sports relations, strengthen and develop friendship between students from all over the world.

At the 28th Congress held in Korea in 2015, the Vietnamese student sports delegation only participated in one sport, Taekwondo, and also excellently won 2 bronze medals in the mixed doubles and team events.

Nguyen Thi Le Kim’s gold medal is also the first gold medal of Vietnam at the world’s second largest sports event - just after the Olympics. In her competition, Nguyen Thi Le Kim performed excellently and won a total score of 7.59 - the second place was the athlete from the United States with a total score of 7.490.

Nguyen Thi Kim Le and the joy of proud achievements for Vietnamese student sports at the 29th World University Games.

Nguyen Thi Le Kim is also one of the three golden girls (along with Chau Tuyet Van and Nguyen Thi Thu Ngan) of Vietnamese Taekwondo. After 15 years of Taekwondo, the petite girl born in 1992 and currently a 4th year student majoring in Sports Business and Event Organization at Ton Duc Thang University (Ho Chi Minh City) has a proud collection of achievements that not every athlete can achieve.

These are the Silver Medal in the Team Martial Arts category at the World Championship in Colombia; Gold Medal in the Team Martial Arts category at the World Military Championship in Vietnam; Gold Medal in the Women's Team Performance Taekwondo category at the 27th SEA Games; Gold Medal in the Women's Team U30 category and the Five-person Creative Martial Arts category at the Youth and Southeast Asian Championships 2015...

It is known that after the Congress ends, Nguyen Thi Le Kim and the boxing team will return home and continue to Malaysia to attend the 29th SEA Games. According to the competition schedule, Taekwondo will start competing from August 24.

Hopefully, the gold medal at the 29th World University Games will be the motivation for Nguyen Thi Le Kim and her teammates to strive to continue bringing glory to the Vietnamese sports delegation at the 29th SEA Games taking place in Malaysia.

According to GD&TĐ