Runners aim high at Asian championships
VOV.VN - Vietnam will send three athletes to compete in the sixth Asian U18 Athletics Championships 2025, which is set to take place in Saudi Arabia from April 14 to 18.
The coaching board of the Vietnamese youth athletics team has decided to send Mai Ngoc Anh, Luong Thi Khan, and Le Thi Thao, to the Asian tournament.
Khan triumphed in the women’s 3,000-metre race, while Anh brought home a gold medal in the women's high jump at the South East Asian Youth Under 18 Athletics Championship 2024.
In the past, the Vietnamese team won several medals in the Asian U18 Athletics Championships, including a gold in the women’s 1,500-metre race and a bronze in the men’s high jump.
The Asian U18 Athletics Championships organised by the Asian Athletics Association is a biennial, continental athletics competition held for Asian athletes.
First held in 2015, the competition has attracted hundreds of athletes from over 30 countries and territories from throughout Asia.
Vietnam wins gold at Asian Athletics Championships 2023
VOV.VN - Four female Vietnamese athletes brought home a gold medal in the women’s 4x400m relay in Bangkok, Thailand, on July 16, the last day of the 25th Asian Athletics Championships 2023.
