Olympic history of Vietnam
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Vietnam's NOK , the Vietnam Olympic Committee , was founded in 1976 and recognized by the IOC three years later . Vietnam has been taking part in the Summer Olympics since 1980 and no athletes have been sent to the Winter Olympics. Between 1952 and 1972, only the south of the then divided country took part under the name South Vietnam (IOC abbreviation VNM). In 1984 the socialist countries called for a boycott for the Los Angeles Games. Young athletes have been sent to both of the youth summer games held so far.
Participation
Summer games
Vietnam's first Olympic team, which started in Moscow in 1980, consisted of a 30-person delegation of athletes, marksmen, wrestlers and swimmers. The first Olympic athletes in the country were the swimmers Lâm Văn Hoành and Thương Ngọc Tơn and the pistol shooters Phan Huy Khảng and Phan Huy Khảng on July 20, 1980. The first woman in the country was swimmer Chung Thị Thanh Lan that same day.
Vietnamese athletes participated in the following sports: boxing and cycling (from 1988), judo (from 1996), taekwondo (from 2000), weightlifting, table tennis, canoeing and rowing (from 2004), badminton and gymnastics (from 2008) and fencing (from 2012).
In 2000 the first medal could be won. In Taekwondo, Trần Hiếu Ngân won silver in featherweight. The next medal was won in 2008. In weightlifting, Hoàng Anh Tuấn won silver in bantamweight. In 2012, the shooter Hoàng Xuân Vinh failed with fourth place with the free pistol only narrowly due to a medal. The weightlifter Trần Lê Quốc Toàn also finished fourth in the bantamweight division.
In 2016 Hoàng Xuân Vinh won two medals. He became the first Vietnamese Olympic champion with the air pistol, and a few days later he won silver with the free pistol. Weightlifter Trần Lê Quốc Toàn reached 5th place in bantamweight.
Youth games
In the first Youth Summer Games in Singapore in 2010 , 13 young athletes, five boys and eight girls, took part. The athletes competed in track and field, weight lifting, wrestling, taekwondo, shooting, swimming, and badminton. Weightlifter Thạch Kim Tuấn became the first Vietnamese youth Olympic champion with his flyweight win. In Taekwondo, Nguyễn Thanh Thảo won silver in the middleweight division for girls and Nguyễn Quốc Cường won bronze in the bantamweight division for boys. Badminton player Vũ Thị Trang won another bronze medal in the girls' singles.
At the second Summer Youth Games , which were held in Nanjing in 2014 , 13 young Vietnamese took part again, five boys and eight girls. They competed in badminton, beach volleyball, rowing, taekwondo, weight lifting, and gymnastics. The swimmer Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên became the youth Olympic champion in the 200 meter medley. Weightlifter Nguyen Tran Anh Tuan won silver in the flyweight division.
Overview of the participants
Summer games
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| 1896-1948 | not participated | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1952-1972 | Participation in the team from South Vietnam | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1976 | not participated | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1980 | 30th | 22nd | 8th | Phan Huy Khảng | 7th | 7th | 5 | 11 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1984 | not participated | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1988 | 9 | 8th | 1 | Nguyễn Đình Minh | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 1992 | 7th | 2 | 5 | 4th | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1996 | 6th | 3 | 3 | Hữu Huy Nguyễn | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2000 | 7th | 3 | 4th | Trương Ngọc Để | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 64 | |||||||||||||
| 2004 | 11 | 6th | 5 | Bùi Thị Nhung | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 2008 | 13 | 7th | 6th | Nguyễn Đình Cương | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 72 | |||||||||
| 2012 | 18th | 6th | 12 | Nguyễn Tiến Nhật | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 2016 | 22nd | 10 | 12 | Vũ Thành An | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4th | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4th | 1 | 1 | 2 | 48 | ||||||
| total | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4th | 77 | |||||||||||||||||||
Winter games
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| 1924-2018 | not participated | |||||||||
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List of medal winners
Gold medals
| Surname | Games | sport | discipline |
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| Hoàng Xuân Vinh | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | shoot | Air pistol |
Silver medals
| Surname | Games | sport | discipline |
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| Trần Hiếu Ngân | 2000 Sydney | Taekwondo | Featherweight |
| Hoàng Anh Tuấn | 2008 Beijing | Weightlifting | Bantamweight |
| Hoàng Xuân Vinh | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | shoot | free gun |
Bronze medals
So far (as of 2018) no bronze medals
Medals by sport
| sport | gold | silver | bronze | total |
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| shoot | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Weightlifting | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Taekwondo | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| total | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4th |
Web links
- Vietnam in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Vietnam on Olympic.org - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
- Website of the VOC (vietn.)
