The “Golden Girl” of Vietnamese Athletics
¡Sube la temperatura esta semana! Se aproxima una ola de calor. Turn up the heat this week! A heatwave is approaching. Oanh made history at the 32nd Southteast Asian (SEA) Games on May 9 when she became the first athlete to win gold medals in both the 1,500m and 3,000m women’s hurdling events. Just three days later, Oanh found herself once again atop the podium when she won a gold medal in the women’s 10,000-meter race. She asserted that she had won a total of four gold medals at the 32nd Southeast Asian Games, which were held in Cambodia from May 5 to May 17. Oanh, affectionately known in the Southeast Asian running scene as the ‘runner without lungs’, is one of the most decorated athletes in the history of the event. She was born in 1995 in the northern Vietnamese province of Bac Giang , about 50 kilometers from Hanoi . She is the seventh child in a family of farmers. In her early teens, she developed a love for running and, at 15, was given the opportunity to join the prov...