14 year old fisherman beat Anh Vien
Le Nhu Quynh completed 50m in 30.25 seconds, 0.2 seconds faster than Anh Vien. She thus brought the Dong Nai team the first gold medal in swimming at the 2022 National Sports Festival.
In the qualifying round of this content, the female swimmer born in 2008 also ranked above Anh Vien, with a record of 30.89 seconds. In this content, Anh Vien is holding both the national record (29.26 seconds - set in 2013) and the congress record (29.43 seconds - set in 2018).
Nhu Quynh is a promising young talent of Vietnamese swimming, expected to follow in the footsteps of senior Anh Vien. The content of Nhu Quynh's strength is the 50m butterfly swim. She won the national youth gold medal when she was 11 years old, the national championship gold medal when she was 13 years old. Nhu Quynh is also the youngest Vietnamese athlete to attend the 31st SEA Games at home.
Anh Vien competed in three events on the penultimate day of swimming. After the defeat against Nhu Quynh, she won two gold medals, when she finished first in the 200m freestyle with a record of 2 minutes 04 seconds 98 and 400m individual medley with a record of 4 minutes 54 seconds 97. Both of these events are swimmers. born in 1996 also hold both national records and congress records.
Anh Vien is an outstanding swimmer of Vietnam's swimming history, won 25 SEA Games gold medals, one silver medal and one Asian bronze medal, two Asiad bronze medals, together with a young Olympic gold medal, a gold medal at the Military Sports Games. World Cup, or World Cup silver medal... She dominates the green race track in Vietnam, with dozens of gold medals and national records. Anh Vien twice attended the 2016 and 2020 Olympics but could not reach the finals.
Anh Vien retired from the team in November 2021 and did not attend the 31st SEA Games at home. However, she still participated in the 2022 National Sports Festival, competing for the Army. The swimmer is holding the rank of major professional soldier, contributing to the Army's lead in swimming with 13 gold medals, 6 more than the second-ranked group in Ho Chi Minh City.
