Phu Tho Sports strives to reach out

In 2023, Phu Tho Sports successfully organized the First and Second Qualifying Rounds - 2024 Asian U20 Women’s Football Championship; Qualifying round of the 2024 Asian U23 Men’s Football Tournament and the 2023 Hung Vuong Cup Volleyball Tournament; Athletes of high performance sports excellently won a total of 121 medals of all kinds... The above achievements have contributed to enhancing the position and image of Phu Tho Sports in the international arena and opening up many opportunities. to reach out and aim for bigger tournaments.

After 13 years of persistent training in Athletics, Phu Tho Sports has won the first Bronze Medal of athlete Luong Xuan Son (top left) at the 2023 National Athletics Championship.

In the past year, along with successfully organizing major sporting events, Phu Tho High Performance Sports participated in 32 national sports tournaments, 8 international tournaments, won 37 Gold Medals, 39 Medals. Silver and 45 Bronze Medals. In addition, there are 16 master athletes, 22 level I athletes and 38 athletes contributing to the National Teams. At 40 competitions in 2023, although Phu Tho athletes did not leave a strong mark on records, they also left many big surprises for their direct competitors. Notable examples include athlete Ha Thi Thuy Hang’s achievement of winning the Gold Medal in Long Jump at the 2023 Southeast Asian Youth Athletics Championship, or the Bronze Medal of athlete Luong Xuan Son in the men’s 3,000m obstacle course. wrestling at the National Athletics Championships in 2023. For Athletics - a sport in the Olympic competition system, Xuan Son’s Bronze Medal is considered more valuable than “gold” because in the past 13 years, Phu Tho has never won any medal at the highest tournament in Athletics.

Athlete Ha Thi Thuy Hang on the podium receiving the Gold Medal in the Long Jump event in Athletics at the 2023 Southeast Asian Youth Athletics Championship.

After the impressive results achieved, both athletes Xuan Son and Thuy Hang have joined the National Youth Team to make greater strides on the regional playing field. For Xuan Son personally, his achievement of winning the Silver Medal in the men’s 3,000m obstacle course at the 2023 Southeast Asian Youth Athletics Championship with a record of 8 minutes 59 seconds 86 has helped him approach record-breaking parameters. six prizes after a whole process of training and striving. At the age of 16, the boy from Phu Ninh created a very memorable milestone in his professional career. Marking a big step forward for Phu Tho sports after a long period of maintaining training in Athletics for many years.

Athletics Coach Vi Duc Cuong - Provincial Sports Training and Training Center said: "Athletics is a cyclical sport and it is very difficult to achieve medals. Therefore, the achievements of athletes achieved in the past year, especially Thuy Hang and Xuan Son will also promise to open up many opportunities for Phu Tho Athletics to reach larger arenas in 2024. To be able to achieve that goal, We hope to continue to receive attention from the industry and the Center’s leaders about training conditions, training trips and participation in international tournaments in the near future so that young athletes have more conditions to compete. practice and improve their professional qualifications before entering important upcoming competitions. This will also be the foundation for young athletes to make more efforts in training and strive to participate in the National Teams to have have a more comprehensive training and development environment."

Phu Tho shuttlecock continues to reap sweet fruits by winning two Gold Medals and one Silver Medal at the 2023 Asian Shuttlecock Championship.

Overall, the 121 medals of all kinds won by our athletes in 2023 have continued to affirm the attention and investment in the right direction of the province and the sports industry in key sports, aiming at the right direction. participate in some Olympic sports such as Swimming and Athletics... rather than spreading out evenly like some localities to get achievements. This is also a proud achievement, showing the many contributions and tireless efforts of sports people, coaches, and athletes of Phu Tho Sports in training conditions, funding for training and Competition still has many limitations.

Viet Tri Stadium will continue to become a reliable address to organize major sporting events across the country and on the continental arena in 2024.

Comrade Nguyen Dac Thuy - TUV, Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism said: "In the past year, Phu Tho has very successfully organized major sports events across the country and region, opening up many opportunities to promote and introduce beautiful images of the people and homeland to domestic tourists and international friends. For highly successful sports, we are not only happy with the achievements Not only do we have the right to hope that the young athletes will continue to shine to bring Phu Tho sports to reach even bigger playgrounds. In the coming time, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism will do a good job of advising the province in investing in facilities and funds to serve the training and fostering of key athletes and the next generation of athletes, towards comprehensive and sustainable development. sustainability of the province’s sports".

The results that the athletes have achieved in the past year confirm the systematic training process and the relentless practice efforts of the athletes and coaches. We believe that, in the coming time, Phu Tho sports will continue to achieve more success at the highest playgrounds across the country and continental arenas.

Quoc Dai