Summer Paralympics 2016 / Participant (Vietnam)

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Vietnam sent eleven athletes to the 2016 Paralympic Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro . There were seven men and four women who competed in athletics, swimming and powerlifting.

In total, the athletes were able to win four medals. Lê Văn Công's gold medal in powerlifting was won with a world record, there was also a silver medal in swimming and two bronze medals in javelin and again in powerlifting.

Medals

medal	Surname	Sports	competition	date
	Lê Văn Công	Powerlifting	Men 49 kg	September 8th
	Võ Thanh Tùng	swim	50 m Freestil S5	13.september
	Đặng Thị Linh Phượng	Powerlifting	Women 50 kg	September 10
	Cao Ngọc Hùng	athletics	Javelin throw F56 / 57	13.september

Participants by sport

athletics

Men

athlete	competition	Result	rank
Ngoc Hiep Nguyen	Long jump T11	4.08	11
Ngoc Hung Cao	Javelin throw F56 / 57	43.27

Women

Athlete	competition	Result	rank
Thi Nhan Nguyen	Long jump T11	4.01	10

swim

Men

athlete	competition	Heat		final
		Result	rank	Result	rank
Thanh Hai Do	100 m breaststroke SB5	1: 40.96	7 Q	1: 40.31	7th
Thanh Trung Nguyen	100 m breaststroke SB4	1: 48.93	7 Q	1: 49.67	6th
	50 m backstroke S5	45.91	10	no qualification
Thanh Tung Vo	50 m freestyle S5	33.87	2 Q	33.94
	100 m freestyle S5	1: 17.64	3 Q	1: 02/18	5
	50 m butterfly S5	38.76	6 Q	39.44	7th
	50 m backstroke S5	39.62	3 Q	40.13	4th

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Thi Bich Nhu Trinh	100 m breaststroke SB5	1: 52.06	7 Q	1: 51.07	6th
	50 m butterfly S6	42.08	7 Q	42.58	8th
	50 m freestyle S6	37.23	9	no qualification

Powerlifting

Women

Athlete	competition	Result	rank
Hoang Tuyet Loan Chau	-55 kg	88.0	8th
Đặng Thị Linh Phượng	-50 kg	102.0

Men

athlete	competition	Result	rank
Nguyễn Bình An	-54 kg	not finished
Lê Văn Công	-49 kg	181	, World record

Web links

• Vietnam on Rio2016.com