HCMC – The Vietnamese team won a silver medal at the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games on Tuesday as Nguyen Thanh Thao was defeated by UK rival, Jade Jones in the finals of the taekwondo event.
Jones Jade brought home Britain’s first youth Olympic’s gold medal when she beat the Vietnamese athlete 9-6 in the women’s 55kg weight category.
Thao, who earned her ticket after winning a bronze medal at the Games’ qualifying round held in Mexico in March, was successful against Abdul Rahman, an outstanding Singaporean athlete, 9-8 to reach the final.
Gold medalist Jones had also defeated defending champion Monica Chavez from Mexico and the runner-up Jennifer Agren from Sweden.
Earlier, weightlifter Thach Kim Tuan clinched the first gold medal for Vietnam in the men’s 56kg weight category on the first day of competition on Sunday. Nguyen Quoc Cuong also took home the bronze medal in the men’s 55kg taekwondo category on Monday.
After four days of competition, China are first in the overall medal tally with 10 gold medals, four silver medals and two bronze medals, followed by Russia with nine golds, nine silvers and three bronzes. Third-placed South Korea grasped five golds, one silver and one bronze. Vietnam is 21st with one gold, one silver and one bronze, behind archrivals Thailand, who secured one gold and three silvers.
The Vietnamese sports delegation to the Games has 13 athletes in the seven events of taekwondo, weightlifting, badminton, wrestling, shooting, swimming and track-and-field.
Vietnam’s earlier achievements at the Olympics was a silver medal from the women’s taekwondo through Tran Hieu Ngan at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games while Hoang Anh Tuan won silver in the men’s weightlifting competition at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
The Games, which are taking place form August 14 to 26 in Singapore, feature some 3,500 athletes, aged from 14-18, and officials from the 204 National Olympic Committees, competing in 26 sports for 184 sets of medals.
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