Fencer An honoured to hold Vietnamese flag at Olympic Rio Games
Fencer Vu Thanh An will be Vietnam’s flag bearer at the Rio Olympic Games, which is scheduled to open in Brazil on August 5.
An shared that it is an honour for any athlete, and also a responsibility for him, and will try his best for the trust that people have put in him.
Fencer An, who is world No 22, will compete in his first Olympics in the men’s sabre event.
He is one of 23 athletes of Vietnam Team who will participate in 10 sports in Brazil.
He, born in 1992 into a family where nobody played a sport, had no idea about fencing.
However An had an interest in a sword, and that made him agree to join the Hanoi Fencing Club in 2007, when he was 15 years old.
Fencing totally changed his life. From a boy who enjoyed school and football with friends, he had to follow a strict schedule of training and competing.
In 2010, An became one of the leading fencers in Vietnam in the sabre event. In the same year that he joined the national team, An competed as a 19-year-old at the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in 2011 and won two silvers medals.
In 2014, An improved and defeated all five rivals to take his individual title before he jumped to the podium again for the team event at last year’s SEA Games in Singapore in June. He then bagged a gold medal at the Asian U-23 Fencing Championship.
An reached the continental level when he won a bronze medal at the Asian competition in April, and then grabbed an Olympic berth after the Asia-Pacific zonal qualification matches in China.
An and three his teammates are training hard for the world’s foremost sports competition.
Fencer An, who is world No 22, will compete in his first Olympics in the men’s sabre event.
He is one of 23 athletes of Vietnam Team who will participate in 10 sports in Brazil.
He, born in 1992 into a family where nobody played a sport, had no idea about fencing.
However An had an interest in a sword, and that made him agree to join the Hanoi Fencing Club in 2007, when he was 15 years old.
Fencing totally changed his life. From a boy who enjoyed school and football with friends, he had to follow a strict schedule of training and competing.
Fencer Vu Thanh An will be Vietnam’s flag bearer at the Rio Olympic Games.
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In 2014, An improved and defeated all five rivals to take his individual title before he jumped to the podium again for the team event at last year’s SEA Games in Singapore in June. He then bagged a gold medal at the Asian U-23 Fencing Championship.
An reached the continental level when he won a bronze medal at the Asian competition in April, and then grabbed an Olympic berth after the Asia-Pacific zonal qualification matches in China.
An and three his teammates are training hard for the world’s foremost sports competition.
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