SEA Games 29: Thuy Vi 'opens' Gold Medal

(Baonghean.vn) - After 4 days of unsuccessful competition, the pressure of winning gold medals for the Vietnamese Sports Delegation weighed heavily on the wushu athletes.With 9.67 points in the swordplay category of wushu, Duong Thuy Vi surpassed host Malaysian athlete Eyin Phoon (9.63 points) to win the first gold medal for Vietnam.

Duong Thuy Vi (born in 1993) is the current SEA Games champion in this category in two consecutive games in 2013 and 2015. This is Duong Thuy Vi's third consecutive Gold Medal when participating in the SEA Games. She is also the current ASIAD 2014 champion in the combined event of Swordsmanship - Women's Boxing. Previously, at the 2013 World Championship in Kuala Lumpur, Thuy Vi was crowned champion in the Women's Boxing event.

This is Duong Thuy Vi's third consecutive Gold Medal at the SEA Games. Photo: Internet.

After failing to win the gold medal in archery and marathon, the Vietnamese sports delegation's hopes for a gold medal were pinned on the role of "golden girl" of wushu Thuy Vi in the swordplay competition. As someone who has won more than 60 medals of all kinds in competitions, having to compete with the host country's athlete Eyin Phoon was really a pressure for Thuy Vi.

Thuy Vi's confident and impressive performance convinced all the judges, giving her the highest score of 9.67 points, surpassing the host athlete Eyin Phoon (9.63 points), thereby winning the first gold medal for the Vietnamese sports delegation at the 29th SEA Games. This is Duong Thuy Vi's third consecutive gold medal when participating in the SEA Games. According to the assessment of the Vietnamese wushu team's coaching board, Thuy Vi's 0.4 point advantage over the host opponent is not a simple thing.

Interestingly, at the 2013 SEA Games, Duong Thuy Vi was also the first gold medalist for the Vietnamese sports delegation and at the 2014 Asian Games, Duong Thuy Vi was also the athlete who won the first (and only) gold medal for the Vietnamese sports delegation.

It is known that after the first gold medal for the wushu team and the "opening" gold medal for the Vietnamese Sports Delegation at the 29th SEA Games, Thuy Vi is still participating in the martial arts event and she continues to be expected to win a gold medal./.

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