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Send-off ceremony for Vietnamese team to ASEAN Para Games 12
Updated: 14:09, 18/05/2023
A ceremony was held in Ho Chi Minh City on May 17 to send off the Vietnamese team competing in the 12th ASEAN Para Games which is scheduled to take place in Cambodia from June 3-9.
The event was co-hosted by the Vietnam Sports Administration under the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, HCM City's Department of Culture and Sports and the Vietnam Paralympic Association.
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The team consists of 164 members, including 16 officials, 21 coaches and 127 athletes. The athletes will compete in 8 out of 13 sports at the tournament, namely track-and-field, swimming, weightlifting, badminton, table tennis, chess, judo, and boccia.
So far, more than 500 athletes with disabilities have registered to compete at ASEAN Para Games 12.
At the 11th ASEAN Para Games in Jakarta, Indonesia, last year, Vietnam claimed 183 medals, including 65 golds, 62 silvers and 56 bronzes, ranking third on the medal tally.
Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen has offered all foreign athletes and coaches at the SEA Games free admission to Angkor Wat.
Dinh Anh Hoang and Tran Mai Ngoc obtained the historic gold medal for Vietnam in the mixed doubles event of table tennis at the 32nd Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) in Cambodia on May 14.
Vietnam lost 2-3 to Indonesia in the men’s football semifinal of SEA Games 32 on May 13 despite playing with more men in the second half.
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- "Excellent", "wonderful", "class is forever",
"admiring you", "congratulations to the golden girl" are
words expressing admiration, love and pride on social networks toward runner Nguyen
Thi Oanh, a small girl from Bac Giang who has excellently won two gold medals
in the women’s 1,500m and 3,000m steeplechase at SEA Games 32 on the afternoon of
May 9.
Vietnam received a rain of gold medals on May 11 afternoon at the 32nd Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) in Cambodia.
Source: VNA
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