Trần Hiếu Ngân

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Trần Hiếu Ngân Taekwondo
Personal information
Nationality: VietnamVietnam Vietnam
Birthday: June 26, 1974
Place of birth: Tuy Hòa , Phu Yên Province , Vietnam
Size: 157 cm
Weight: 47 kg
Medals
Note: The surname of this Vietnamese name is Trần , in Western texts the spelling is often simplified Tran . According to Vietnamese custom, the person should be referred to by their first name Ngân - even in formal situations .

Trần Hiếu Ngân (born June 26, 1974 in Tuy Hòa , Phú Yên Province ) is a former Vietnamese Taekwondoin .

At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney , the then 26-year-old was the first Olympic medalist in the Olympic history of Vietnam when she won the silver medal in the weight class up to 57 kg behind Jung Jae-eun (gold) and ahead of Hamide Bıkçın Tosun (bronze). In the years before, she won various medals at the Asian Games and the Asian Taekwondo Championships .

life and career

Trần Hiếu Ngân was born on June 26, 1974, about ten months before the official end of the Vietnam War , as the fourth child of a total of eight siblings in Tuy Hòa, the capital of the Phu Yen Province, in the central south of Vietnam. Through her father, who once appeared as a martial artist himself, she came to the martial art Taekwondo in 1987. From the beginning of the 1990s, the first successes of the young people came, who had already won various medals in Vietnamese and all-Asian competitions and tournaments. Her first major successes include a silver medal at the Asian Taekwondo Championships in 1996, a few days before her 22nd birthday. Here she won a silver medal in the featherweight (up to 59 kg) in Melbourne , where she had to admit defeat in the final to the long-time winner South Korea , in this case Lee Seung-min .

After 1998 before a home crowd at the Asian Taekwondo Championships in even mid-May Ho Chi Minh City had participated and there gold in the featherweight won (to 59 kg), she took the end of the 13th Asian Games in Bangkok in part . There she was able to win the bronze medal in the bantam weight class (up to 51 kg) together with the Nepalese Sapana Malla behind the Thai Nootcharin Sukkhongdumnoen (silver) and the South Korean Lee Ji-won (gold).

Around two years later, the then 26-year-old took part in the Taekwondo tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and was part of a seven-member athlete delegation from Vietnam at the Olympic Games . In the competitions in the weight class up to 57 kg she was only able to prevail in the first round against 36-year-old Cheryl-Ann Sankar from Trinidad and Tobago in the third round with two deuk-jeom , two so-called plus points. In the quarter-finals, she finally won clearly against the 22-year-old Jasmin Strachan from the Philippines , who she defeated with eight deuk-jeom. The semifinals against the 25-year-old Dutchwoman Virginia Lourens were similarly successful for Trần Hiếu Ngân , where she had to accept ten deuk-jeom and one gam-jeom , a so-called minus point.

After reaching the final, she competed there against the 20-year-old South Korean Jung Jae-eun and lost there after receiving a deuk-jeom and a gam-jeom against the six-year-old athlete from South Korea, who was fighting with three deuk-jeom and a gam-jeom could win. Nevertheless, this meant the first medal in the Olympic history of Vietnam, which began in 1980, when the summer games were first played . After the success at the Olympics, she soon began training young Taekwondo in Ho Chi Minh City and is still active in this position today (as of December 2015).

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Footnotes and individual references

  1. ↑ usually up to 55 kg ; at this tournament, however, the bantam weight was set to 51 kg
  2. ↑ Cựu “nữ hoàng” taekwondo Trần Hiếu Ngân: Chuyện chưa kể sau tấm huy chương Olympic (Vietnamese), accessed December 14, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Trần Hiếu Ngân
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Vietnamese Taekwondoin
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Tuy Hòa , Phu Yên Province , Vietnam