Wednesday, 08/06/2016 16:37 (GMT+7)
(CPV) - After four days of competition, the 17th Asian Junior Athletics 2016 tournament wrapped up on June 6th at Ho Chi Minh city-based Thong Nhat stadium.
The host Vietnam pocketed two gold, three silver, and two bronze medals, ranking 7th in the final tally. The two gold medals belong to Vinh Long province-origin Nguyen Thi Truc Mai (in the women's long jump event, with 6.34m), surpassing strong rivals from China, Thailand and Uzbekistan, and Le Tu Chinh from Ho Chi Minh city (in the women’s 200m event, clearing the bar in 23.94s), both were born in 1997. Tu Chinh demonstrated an impressive performance over rivals from Thailand, Malaysia and Kazakhstan.
Athlete Le Tu Chinh (numbered 591)
Athlete Le Trung Duc
In the final competition day, Khuat Phuong Anh from Hanoi capital won a silver medal in the women’s 400m hurdles with a time of 59.78s. In the men’s 3,000m steeplechase final, host Vietnam runners Le Trung Duc (9:27.40s) and Le Quang Hoa (9:31.86s) finished in second and third place. And Nguyen Linh Na finished third in the women’s pentathlon.
By bagging medals, three Vietnamese female athletes Tu Chinh, Truc Mai and Phuong Anh have successfully earned a berth at the 2016 World U20 Championships in Athletics (an international athletics competition for athletes qualifying as juniors, born no earlier than January 1st, 1997) due to take place in Bydgoszcz, Poland on July 19th-24th.
In the medal tally, Japan ranked first with 13 gold, 10 silver and four bronze, following by China (11 gold, seven silver, and four bronze), and India (seven gold, four silver, and six bronze)./.
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