will kick off on Sept. 9 at Tokyo's Yoyogi National Gymnasium.
Nguyen Thi Lan will compete in her first match on Sept. 11 in the
women's 57kg division. Southeast Asian queen Van Ngoc Tu will fight in
the women's 48kg division. Ho Ngan Giang and Huynh Nhat Thong will
represent Vietnam in the men's 60kg division.
The Vietnamese judokas participated in a one-month intensive training
course in China and competed in the Judo World Cup in Mongolia in
late July.
Vietnamese judokas hoped to collect
points that would give them a berth at the London Olympics in 2012, said
the National Sports Administration's judo department head Nguyen Huu
An.
The world event is a warm-up opportunity for the upcoming Asian Games in China in November.
The Vietnamese athletes will compete in the Southeast Asian Judo
Championship at the HCM City 's Phan Dinh Phung Gymnasium on
September 22-26 after returning home from Tokyo . Vietnam is viewed
as the regional powerhouses in judo after their dominant performance at
the 25th SEA Games last December in Laos where they won 18 medal
sets in both combat and performance events./.
