Bright memory

Two year ago, Nguyen Thi Oanh surprised the ASEAN track and field by defeating all rivals in the women’s race tracks of 1,500 m and 5,000 m to pocket 2 golds at SEA Games 29 (held in 2017 in Malaysia).

Nguyen Thi Oanh (center) wins gold medals at women’s 5,000 meter at the National Sports Festival in 2018.

Oanh’s achievement that year was excellent especially to Bac Giang provincial sports sector because the track and field is the basic and key game of the world Olympic movement. Additionally, her two gold medals helped Vietnamese track and field team surpass the strong nations such as Thailand and Singapore so as to dominate the ASEAN region.

For recent two years, Oanh has kept continuously practising to improve her competence so as to follow and conquer new glories. Apart from practising on her forte of 3000-meter steeplechase, Oanh also takes advantages of the opportunities to make two remaining categories (1,500 m and 5,000 m) become personal strong point.

Successfully, Oanh won gold medal at 5,000 m event at the 29th SEA Games with the achievement of 17 minutes 23 second 20. At the same event in the National Sports Festival last year, she was the first person to touch the finished line after only 16 minutes 35 seconds 30.

Meanwhile Oanh could not complete the race track of 3,000 meter hurdle unless 10 minutes before 2017. However, she realized it via the historic bronze medal at the 18th Asian Games after completing it at 9 minutes 43 seconds 83.

These above figures affirmed for the consecutive progress of the Bac Giang athlete.

Great efforts spent on important target

Looking forward to key targets in 2019, since early this year, Nguyen Thi Oanh has continued practising together with her teammates to enhance the strength and spirit. Personally, Oanh has spent much time on recovering the limitation.

Nguyen Thi Oanh always determines to gain highest achievement in competition.

Besides to the national and international events, Oanh will participate in other championships to compete to gain experiences and prepare the good performance to the ASEAN arena this year.

In the upcoming 30th Sea Games, Oanh has chance to protect the gold medals at women’s 1,500m and 5,000m events as well as conquer the 3,000 meter hurdle category in case of smooth competition agenda because it is one of her fortes.

Currently, Oanh is suffering from long term insomnia that leads serious impact on her physical and spirit. Also, other issues have certain effect on the spirit of “the Queen of Speed”.

Leaving the problem aside, Nguyen Thi Oanh said she will try her best to definitely treat the insomnia in order to spend the utmost effort on training and professional issues. “My goal is to take the utmost effort to conquer the regional arena again,” Oanh affirmed.

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Quoc Truong