Besides football, there are 4 Nghe An athletes who will participate in SEA Games 31.

Nguyen Dinh Vu, number 215, is an athlete from Nghe An who is participating in the 31st SEA Games. Photo: PV

InSEA Games31, there will be 40 sports, 526 events with the participation of 11 sports delegations in the Southeast Asian region. The Games will be held in Hanoi and 11 neighboring provinces and cities from May 12 to 23, 2022.

In addition to football, Nghe An also has at least 4 athletes participating, namely: Nguyen Dinh Vu - athletics; Nguyen Thi My - sepak takraw; Pham Thi Hong Thanh - weightlifting; Nguyen Van Quang - petanque. In addition, O Thi Nga - athletics also has many opportunities to compete in this arena.

Among the four athletes mentioned above, Pham Thi Hong Thanh is the athlete most likely to win the Gold Medal at theweightliftingat SEA Games 31.

Pham Thi Hong Thanh, the golden girl of Nghe An sports. Photo: Internet

Pham Thi Hong Thanh is known as a talented athlete of Nghe An sports. This athlete was born in Hai Duong, but was selected to train at Nghe An Sports Training and Competition Center. Since 2018, she has won many Gold Medals for Nghe An sports. These include the Gold Medal at the National Sports Festival in 2018; Gold Medal at the National Championship in 2019, 2020, 2021. In particular, this athlete won the 30th SEA Games Gold Medal for the Vietnamese sports delegation.

Participating in the 31st SEA Games, she will compete in the 64 kg weight class for women. With assessments of the balance of power between the delegations and their current form, experts believe that this will be the golden hope for Nghe An sports in particular and Vietnam in general at this congress.

In addition, Nguyen Dinh Vu - an athlete in track and field is also a very notable athlete. This athlete's strengths are the short runs of 100m, 200m, 4x100m relay. In recent competitions and professional tests at the 100m distance, Vu's best finishing time was 10.64s; 200m was 21.47s.

Vu shared: “This is the first SEA Games I have participated in, so I am very excited and determined to bring the best results for Vietnam. I hope that my teammates and I will win the Gold Medal in the 4x100m relay. Because this is the strength of Vietnamese athletics. Compared to our competitors in the region, we can completely believe in a victory in this competition.”

Although Nghe An does not really have many athletes participating in the 31st SEA Games, with the participation of the 4 talented faces mentioned above, it is hoped that Nghe An sports will make a significant contribution to the overall achievements of the Vietnamese delegation.