Vietnam fulfills target of being in top three at SEA Games 29
Vietnam won a total of 58 gold, 50 silver and 60 bronze medals to stay at the third place in overall rankings of the 29th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, which concluded on August 30, meeting its set target.
The Vietnamese sport delegation at the 29th SEA Games (Source: VNA)
Kuala Lumpur (VNA) – Vietnam won a total of 58 gold, 50silver and 60 bronze medals to stay at the third place in overall rankings ofthe 29th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, which concluded on August 30, meeting itsset target.
Vietnam sent 472 athletes to SEA Games 29, competing in 32 out of 38sports at the event. The country set the goal of claiming between 49 and 59gold medals and a place in the top three positions at the region’s largestsport festival.
Vietnam has been in the top 3 for seven consecutive SEA Games since2003.
Tran Duc Phan, head of the Vietnamese team noted that more than 90percent of gold medals seized by Vietnam this season belong to the Olympicsports category, adding that the figure for the last SEA Games was 87 percent.
It means Vietnam is on the righttrack in training its athletes for the 2018 Asian Games and 2020 SummerOlympics’ qualifying round.
Athletics athletes’ achievements at the SEA Games 29, with a total of 17gold medals, have lived up to expectation and made up for other sports.
At this year’s regional sport event, host Malaysia climbed to the topposition with 145 gold, 32 silver and 86 bronze medals, followed by Thailand(72 gold, 86 silver and 88 bronze).Timor Leste was at the bottom of the list with three bronze medals.
The 29th SEAGames took place in Malaysia from August 19-30 with the participation of 4,888athletes from 10 member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations(ASEAN) and Timor-Leste. The athletes competed in 405 categories of 38 sports.
This is the sixth games hosted by Malaysiaafter similar events in 1965, 1971, 1977, 1989 and 2001.-VNA
Vietnam stayed at the third place on the medal tally at the end of its 10th day into the SEA Games 29 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which ends on August 31.
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The Vietnamese sport delegation at the 29th SEA Games (Source: VNA) 
