Vietnam’s Asian Champion Nguyen Thi Tam and Nguyen Van Duong trains hard to earn the country’s first boxing medal in the Olympic Games
The Tokyo Olympic Games will be starting with its first competition day on the 24th of July and all of the teams are in the final stage of their preparations to be in top shape in Japan’s capital. Vietnam qualified two boxers at the very first time in its boxing history and both of the experienced hopes train with full speed in their homeland.
Nguyen Thi Tam trains in Hanoi National Sport Training Centre in their capital city where Thailand’s coach Mr. Tawan Mungphingklang leads the training sessions. The 27-year-old Nguyen Thi Tam began boxing in 2009 and she trains usually 24 hours in a week since 2016 to achieve her career goals. She is planning to follow her boxing idol’s, Vasyl Lomachenko’s pathway in the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Nguyen Thi Tam reached her first big highlight in 2017 when she earned gold medal at the ASBC Asian Women’s Boxing Championships in Ho Chi Minh City. She claimed bronze at the Jakarta 2018 Asian Games, silver in the next Bangkok 2019 edition of the ASBC Asian Elite Boxing Championships, won the Southeast Asian Games and reached the quarter-finals at the 2019 AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships.
She is one of the best boxers at the women’s flyweight (51kg) who had narrow losses only to the top Chinese, Russian and North Korean stars in the recent four years and won more than 90% of her international contests. Nguyen Thi Tam won international tournaments in Bulgaria, in Indonesia and achieved bronze at the strong Thailand Open International Boxing Tournament.
Nguyen Van Duong trains in the Ho Chi Minh City National Sport Training Centre and the big puncher could be a surprise at the men’s featherweight (57kg). Nguyen Van Duong is physically strong which he proved in the key quarter-final at the Asian & Oceanian Olympic Boxing Qualifying Event when he defeated Thailand’s veteran star Chatchai Decha Butdee. The Vietnamese hope achieved bronze medal in Amman and he proved strong developments in all aspects of boxing.
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