Pencak Silat grabs gold, Vietnam is about to reach the target of 70 gold medals!
Good news kept pouring in. Pencak Silat had an exciting day of competition when Tran Thi Luyen won her 5th gold medal in the under 75 kg category. With 2 more gold medals, the Vietnamese Sports Delegation will reach the finish line!
Wrestler Ha Van Hieu excellently won the gold medal
*Pencak Silat:It was a busy day as we won another gold medal. In the women's Pencak Silat event under 75 kg, boxer Tran Thi Luyen easily defeated her opponent from the host country with an overwhelming score of 5-0 to take the top spot. This is the 68th gold medal for the Vietnamese Sports Delegation.
*Object:More good news for Wrestling. Wrestler Can Tat Du has won the gold medal in the under 74 kg category. Can Tat Du's gold medal is the third gold medal of the day for the Vietnamese Wrestling team. Notably, the Wrestling team won all three events on November 17. This is the 67th gold medal of the Vietnamese Sports Delegation.
*Object:Right after Ha Van Hieu won the gold medal, his teammate Bui Anh Tuan also had the opportunity to raise the gold medal after winning the freestyle wrestling event under 66 kg. Thus, as of 3:30 p.m., the Vietnamese Sports Delegation had won 66 gold medals, 62 silver medals and 62 bronze medals. We are still firmly in second place on the medal table.
*Object:Not long after the gold medal in fencing, wrestling brought good news. Wrestler Ha Van Hieu won the gold medal in the freestyle wrestling event in the 120 kg weight class.
*With the gold medal in fencing, the Vietnamese Sports Delegation only has 6 more gold medals to complete the target of 70 gold medals at the 26th SEA Games. According to the reporter of the Football newspaper, this afternoon and evening, the Vietnamese Sports Delegation is likely to win 3 to 6 more gold medals. Thus, the Vietnamese Sports Delegation will reach the finish line today.
*Pencak Silat:14:20 - Pencak Silat again brings good news. The only difference from the previous 4 times is that this time the medal color is only silver when boxer Nguyen Duy Chien lost in the final match of the 70 kg weight class, against his Malaysian opponent with a score of 2-3.
*Sword:14:00 - Early in the afternoon, the Vietnamese fencing team brought back good news. In the women's fencing event, Nguyen Thanh Van, Nguyen Thu Hien and Tran Thi Len excellently defeated the host team Indonesia to win the gold medal.
Up to this point, the Vietnamese delegation has won a total of 64 gold medals, 61 silver medals and 62 bronze medals. At the end of the morning, the Thai delegation also made remarkable progress with 2 gold medals to bring the total number of gold medals to 54. However, the other team is still 10 gold medals behind our team.
Martial artist Tran Van Toan
*Pencak Silat:At 12:15, boxer Nguyen Thi Yen won a decisive 5-0 victory over boxer Mariati from the host country Indonesia in the -65kg weight class, bringing home the 4th Silat gold medal and the 62nd gold medal for the Vietnamese Sports Delegation. The latest images of Nguyen Thi Yen will be updated in a few minutes.
*Badminton:The Badminton Team has just received bad news when Vietnam's top player Nguyen Tien Minh had to stop in the quarterfinals against Singaporean opponent Wong Zi Liang Derek after two sets with scores of 14-21 and 15-21.
*According to a reporter from Football newspaper in Jakarta, on the opening day, the Vietnamese women's Futsal team won against a strong opponent for the championship, Myanmar, with a score of 3-1.
* Update:As of 11:30 am today, the Vietnamese Sports Delegation has won 61 gold medals, 56 silver medals and 60 bronze medals, temporarily ranking 2nd on the rankings. Currently, the Thai team is still 9 gold medals behind the Vietnamese team. According to our prediction, the target of 70 gold medals of the Vietnamese Sports Delegation at the 26th SEA Games can be completed today.
(According to bongdaplus.vn)