Sport

Nghe An won 4 medals at the 2025 'Green Race' National Rescue Swimming Competition

Minh Quan • July 29, 2025 06:58

From July 21 to 28, in Kon Tum ward (Quang Ngai province), the Department of Physical Training and Sports (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) coordinated with the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Quang Ngai province to organize the National "Green Race" for drowning rescue for children and students in 2025.

This year's tournament gathered 744 athletes from 30 delegations from provinces, cities and clubs across the country, competing in the following events: swimming, diving, learning about safe swimming knowledge, drowning rescue skills games, and preventing drowning for children.

Nghe An delegation participated with 10 athletes, one of the delegations with the smallest number of athletes in the tournament. However, Nghe An athletes competed with great effort and achieved impressive results: 2 Gold Medals, 2 Silver Medals.

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Nghe An athletes participate in the National Swimming and Rescue Competition for Youth and Students "Green Race" in 2025. Photo: Nghe An Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism

Among them, athlete Le Quynh Anh excellently won the Gold Medal in the 100m breaststroke for women in the 9-11 age group, and the Silver Medal in the 50m breaststroke for women in the same age group.

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Athlete Le Quynh Anh of Nghe An delegation won the Gold Medal in the 100m breaststroke event for women in the 9-11 age group. Photo: Nghe An Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism

Athlete Ho Phi Trinh won the Gold Medal in the rescue event (25m freestyle - 25m rescue) and the Silver Medal in the 50m breaststroke event.

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Athlete Ho Phi Trinh won the Gold Medal in the event of helping a victim (25m freestyle - 25m helping). Photo: Nghe An Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism

This is a remarkable result for the efforts of the students and athletes as well as the systematic training and education of the Nghe An high-performance sports sector in the field of preventing school drowning accidents - one of the current key physical education goals.

Minh Quan