Nghe An won Silver Medal at the National Youth Petanque Championship
(Baonghean.vn) - After 7 days (from July 22 to 28, 2018) of exciting competition, on the afternoon of July 28, at the Petanque Stadium of Dong Thap Province's Sports Talent School, the 2018 National Petanque Championship for Youth and Teens officially ended. The Nghe An delegation won 1 Silver Medal thanks to athlete Nguyen Thi Thuy in the women's singles, age group 17-20.
The tournament attracted 155 athletes from 10 provinces and cities including: Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Nghe An, Dong Nai, Ba Ria Vung Tau, Vinh Long, Tra Vinh, Soc Trang, Bac Lieu and host Dong Thap.
At the tournament, athletes competed in 2 age groups: 11 to 16 years old competing in 6 events (men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles, men's technique, women's technique) and 17 to 20 years old competing in 8 events (men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles, men's trios, women's trios, men's technique, women's technique).
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| Representatives of the organizing committee awarded prizes to athletes with outstanding achievements. Photo: Nguyen Toan |
In the final result, with 5 Gold Medals, 1 Silver Medal, 5 Bronze Medals, the host Dong Thap excellently ranked first in the whole delegation. The positions were respectively Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi City, Bac Lieu...
According to the Organizing Committee, this year's tournament attracted a large number of athletes with high professional quality from all over the country, bringing great success to the tournament. The technical ability and competition level of the group of athletes from 11 to 16 years old are assessed to have made great progress, which is a good sign for Petanque Vietnam in the coming time.
This is also an opportunity for the organizing committee to select athletes with excellent skills to add to the national team to participate in regional and international tournaments in the coming time./.
Petanque (iron marbles) is recorded to have appeared as early as 9000 BC when a set of stone marbles and a target was found in Türkiye. Another set was also found in an ancient Egyptian tomb 7000 BC.
In the 17th century, the French upper class popularized the sport and King Louis XVI introduced the rules of the game with 14 points. During Napoleon's time, the French army used cannonballs to play petanque.
Modern petanque was born in 1907 in Ciotat, Provence, southern France. Then this sport spread to Western European countries as well as all French colonies in Africa, the South Pacific. Over the past decade, in some Eastern European countries, in Eastern European and Asian countries, especially Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Japan, Singapore, many people play this sport.
The World Petanque Championship was first held in 1959. The Vietnamese sports team competed in this sport for the first time at the 21st SEA Games.