Vietnamese track-and-field team bring home gold from Hong Kong champs
VGP -- Viet Nam pocketed three golds and two bronzes at the Hong Kong Athletics Championship which closed on May 5.
Nguyen Thi Oanh of Viet Nam seen in the top podium twice as she win in the women’s 3,000m steeplechase and 5,000m.
SEA Games' multi-time champion Nguyen Thi Oanh met no difficulty to dominate her favourite categories of 3,000m steeplechase and 5,000m.
In the first event, Oanh was separately from the whole bunch in early time and ran solo to the finish line in a time of 10min 15.84sec.
She left her closest rival nearly three minutes.
Chan Wing Tung and Tang Yuen Shuen of the host were second and third, respectively.
Later, Oanh competed in the 5,000m and she finished first in a time of 16min 23.17sec, setting her seasonal best.
Bui Thi Loan took the third gold for Viet Nam in the women's triple jump with a result of 13.7m.
Chan Shannon Vera and Kam Zuen Wa of Hong Kong were the two runners-up.
Loan also took bronze in the long jump with a leaf of 6.01m. And the last bronze went to former SEA Games winner Bui Thi Nguyen in the women's 100m hurdles.
The Hong Kong tournament was held on May 4-5 featuring local athletes and competitors from different countries including Singapore, the Philippines, Australia and Viet Nam.
Vietnamese athletes took part in the event to test their skills ahead of the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in November in Thailand./.
