Nghe An won 14 gold medals at the 2014 National Sports Festival

(Baonghean.vn)-After more than 10 days of exciting competition (December 6-16), the 7th National Sports Festival 2014 has ended.

This year's congress has 10,964 officials, coaches, and athletes, including 7,493 male and female athletes, 1,795 referees, 1,674 officials and coaches from 63 provinces and cities and 2 branches of the Army and Police. The athletes compete in 36 sports (45 sub-disciplines) with 747 sets of medals, Nam Dinh province is the main host. Attending this congress, Nghe An sports delegation has 173 athletes, 35 coaches, competing in 14 sports.

At this congress, 54 new records were set, including: diving: 26 records (17 national records, 9 world records); shooting: 4 national records, 1 world record broken; athletics: 4 first records were set; weightlifting: 7 national records were set.

Nghe An excellently won the gold medal in football at the congress

Leading the overall rankings is the Hanoi delegation with 167 gold medals, 118 silver medals, 137 bronze medals, second is the Ho Chi Minh City delegation with 124 gold medals, 103 silver medals, 104 bronze medals, third is the Army delegation with 75 gold medals, 54 silver medals, 91 bronze medals, notably the Thanh Hoa delegation, the neighboring province of Nghe An, excellently ranked 4th overall with 41 gold medals, 30 silver medals, 29 bronze medals.

Mr. Nguyen Hoang Trung - Deputy DirectorNghe An Sports Training Center said that at the end of the congress,Nghe An delegation ranked 15th in the overall ranking with 14 gold medals (2 sepak takraw, 2 petanque, 2 vovinam, 1 pencatsilat, 2 traditional martial arts, 2 weightlifting, 1 soccer, 2 sepak takraw), 10 silver medals, 22 bronze medals.

Previously, at the departure ceremony, the target set by the Nghe An sports delegation at this congress was to achieve 15th - 13th place overall, expected to win 17 gold medals, 17 silver medals, and 45 bronze medals.

Duc Dung