Nation takes gold, silver in aerobics

Aerobic: Vu Ba Dong and Tran Thi Thu Ha, originally uploaded by Kiva.Dang.

Viet Nam grabbed one gold and one silver in the aerobics event at the Asian Indoor Games yesterday, November 3.

The Vietnamese partnership of Vu Ba Dong and Tran Thu Ha brought home gold in the mixed doubles in Hai Phong Gymnasium with a total of 20.875 points, leading the artistic and execution categories.

They defeated South Korea's Kyung Ho-lee and Yeonsun Park and Thailand's Nattawut Pimpa and Roypim Ngampeerapong, with 20.200 points and 20.125 points, respectively.

They triumphed at the 24th Southeast Asian Games' sport aerobics in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, two years ago.


Dong and Ha continued to co-ordinate with Nguyen Tien Phuong in the trio group to grab silver with total of 20.889 points behind China's trio who scored 21.250 points. The bronze medal went to South Korea's trio with 20 points.

In the men's singles, China's Xiaofeng Zhou beat eight contenders to take gold, with 20.500 points.

Runner-up was Jong Kun Song of South Korea with the same number of points overall, but less artistic points. Third was Nattawut Pimpa of Thailand with 20.100 points.

Vietnamese Tien Phuong gained second place in the qualifying round, but only managed fourth in the final.

Viet Nam also took another gold medal, this time in the men's 73kg kurash event thanks to the efforts of Nguyen Tuan Hoc.

In the other 66kg final of the men's kurash, Kazakhstan took a gold medal thanks to Meirzhan Kaltayev who defeated Peng-Yao Hsu of Chinese Taipei.

Orapa Senatham of Thailand was defeated by Olessya Kutsenko of Kazakhstan in the women's 57kg final.

Vietnamese athletes continued to shine yesterday when Pham Thi Van Anh beat Kim Eonkyung of South Korea to take another gold for Viet Nam in the women's single jujitsu&beltwrestling, 62kg final.

The northern port city's fans also had the chance to see the archery qualification round at Hai Phong Gymnasium yesterday.

In the men's compound, Reza Amaninejad of Iran led with 585 points, while Vietnamese Nguyen Tien Cuong came second with 580 points, and Reza's teammate Abdollah Kiaei was third with 575 points.

In the qualification round of the women's rucurve, South Korea's Jang Mi-yu led with 587 points, while Siyi Lu of China and Mi So-shim of South Korea were runners-up with 583 points and 582 points, respectively.

Vietnamese Nguyen Thi Kieu Trang was eliminated after ranking 12th out of 28 archers.

Viet Nam men's team beat Laos 2-0 while China beat Thailand 2-1 in the semi-finals of the shuttle cock event.

In the women's section, Viet Nam-defeated Chinese Macao 2-0 in the first semi-final, while China defeated Laos 2-0 in the second.

Viet Nam now has a total of 19 golds after four competition days in the medal tally.

Source: Viet Nam News

Gamers team eye Indoor gold

Asia Indoor Game 3 - Vietnam 2009, originally uploaded by Kiva.Dang.

Viet Nam's e-sports team will take part in the third Asian Indoor Games (AIG) with the aim of bringing home a gold medal.

Duong Vi Khoa, the team's head coach, said, "Although the team is only aiming for a gold, we've got some skilful players who have been training hard. Viet Nam's e-sport team will do its best and hopefully spur the development of the sport in the country."

Khoa, who has devoted himself to e-sports since it appeared in Viet Nam, said, "I paid attention to the e-sports event seven years ago. In 2003, Viet Nam had ADSL, and I had a strong attachment to the event. Those who had an interest, got together and we organised tournaments ourselves."

The team includes four coaches and 16 gamers convened in Ha Noi at the weekend and took part a training course to prepare for the Games organised by the Viet Nam Multimedia Corporation.

This event will take place at Ha Noi's Bach Khoa Gymnasium on November 1-4 with the participation of 200 gamers from 15 teams to compete for six sets of medals in the individual and team events.

Viet Nam's gamers will play including FIFA 09, Starcraft: Broodwar, Counter Strike, Dota All-stars.

According to e-sports experts, To Trung Hieu is expected to lead the team to a medal in this event after he showed his great talent in the World Cyber Games Asian Champions in July.

Viet Nam emerged at the World Cyber Games Asian Champions with two gold wins in Dota All-stars and FIFA 2009 after beating 13 countries from around Asia, including South Korea, China, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Australia and New Zealand.

Source: Viet Nam News

Asian Indoor Games 3 press and media consultant conference

Asia Indoor Game 3 - Vietnam 2009, originally uploaded by Kiva.Dang.

The consultant conference and AIG 3 media check took place in Hanoi, with the presencet of Mr. Dan Hubp – Media Specialist of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA).

At the conference, Mr. Hoang Vinh Giang, the AIG 3 Organizing Committee Deputy-General and General Secretary of Olympic Committee of Vietnam reported on the preparations and management process of the Vietnam AIG Organizing Committee (VAIGOC) to the representative of the OCA. VAIGOC has an important and influential role which links directly to the media, press, IT and protocol departments. Additionally, during the session, representatives of two Protocol and Hospitality Sub-Committees; Communication, four stations of Vietnam Television (VTV), Ho Chi Minh Television (HTV), Vietnam Sports newspapers, the Physical and Sports Culture Information Center – the General Department of Physical Culture and Sports Culture were also informed by the OCA about the volunteer training, protocols, the projects of building the International Business Communication centres (IBC – in Hanoi and HCM City), the Main Press Center (MPC) and IT solutions at the Games.

Besides the general difficulties (such as a lack of finance for projects), another obstacle which impacts on VAIGOC’s media and press projects is the lack of information about the number of athletes, 45 team delegation members, journalists and media agencies that will attend and work at AIG 3. For example, the project of the IBC has to plan for the maximum of booths for television journalists but if AIG 3 does not use all the booths, this will lead to a waste of money. The AIG 3 Communication Sub-Committee Deputy-Chief stated that, VAIGOC has experience in executing projects for the media and press at the 22nd SEA Games. However, the AIG 3 is a continental event. Therefore, VAIGOC needs a lot of help from the OCA in order to achieve the highest target. Moreover, the Communication Sub-Committee also wants help from the OCA regarding press guidelines, media reporting techniques (especially for new sports), AIG 3 information management (main system), the AIG 1 and AIG 2 information consultants, media specialists and press agencies to help VAIGOC.

At the moment, based on the information for VAIGOC, Mr., Dan Hubp said, right at this time, to increase the execution of media and press plans, VAIGOC needs to complete the detailed competition schedule. This will facilitate the international and domestic media to plan programs and cooperate with the event. Presently, with this responsibility, Mmr. Dan Hubp will help Vietnam through the OCA.

According to the schedule, after this meeting, Mr. Dan Hubp will investigate some AIG 3 competition venues.

Source: The Thao Vietnam