Swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh Vien grabbed a bronze medal in the women’s 400m individual medley as she finished with a time of 4:39.65 sec, after Chinese Olympic champion Ye Shiwen (4:32.97), which is a new Games records, and Japanese swimmer Sakiko Shimizu (4:38.63).
Vien earned Vietnam’s first swimming medal in ASIAD history.
This is also Vien’s best performance in the women’s 400m individual medley. In 2013, at SEA Games 27 in Myanmar, the Can Tho native set a new SEA Games record, finishing in 4:46.16 to won the gold medal. Earlier this year, she improved her performance to 4:41.68 at the Orlando Grand Prix in the US.
* The same day, Nguyen Tien Nhat, Nguyen Phuoc Den and Truong Tran Nhat Minh won another bronze medal for Vietnam, after losing 25-45 to the hosts RoK in the semi-final of the men’s team epee fencing category.
* Wushu athlete Nguyen Thanh Tung won a bronze in the men’s taiji category with a total 19.24 points, scoring 9.62 points each for the taijijian and taijiquan performances.
A few hours later, Tung’s teammate Tan Thi Ly also won a bronze in the women's 60kg category in sanshou (combat), while Ngo Van Sy bagged another bronze in the 75-kg class of the men’s sanshou.
Bui Truong Giang is expected to bring home another silver on September 24 as he entered the final match after beating Lao rival Soukaphone Khamla 2-0 in the men’s sanshou 56-kg category.
* Vietnam women's football team crushed Hong Kong 5-0, finishing second in the Group C to advance to the quarter-finals. The team will play Thailand in the first quarter-final match on September 26.
With one gold, two silver and nine bronze medals after four days of competitions, Vietnam is in 10th place out of 45 participating delegations.
China is leading the medal tally with 40 gold, followed by the RoK with 18 gold and Japan with 16 gold medals.
