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Members of the Kurash staff of Việt Nam at a competitors in Uzbekistan. The staff had a 20-day coaching session forward of the SEA Video games 31 in Việt Nam. Picture courtesy of Kurash staff 

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HÀ NỘI — The ten members and two coaches of Việt Nam’s kurash martial arts staff are set to defend their SEA Video games title, after a global coaching schedule geared toward offsetting the affect COVID had on the staff over the previous few years.

The staff will start their journey on Might 10 on the Hoài Đức Sporting Centre, within the suburban Hoài Đức District of Hà Nội.

Việt Nam’s kurash staff, who’re thought-about a possible ‘gold mine’ on the regional sports activities occasions, will face robust competitors on the SEA Video games 31 regardless of being on residence turf.

In preparation for the Video games, the staff gathered for coaching in HCM Metropolis in January earlier than honing their expertise at a 20-day coaching session in Uzbekistan and in a sequence of tournaments in Tajikistan and Tashkent by means of March.

The staff gained silver and three bronzes on the Asia Kurash Championship – the premier competitors on the Asian continent – earlier than incomes one other silver and bronze on the Tajikistan Kurash Open.

The staff additionally took residence two golds, one silver and one bronze on the Tashkent Kurash Event, as all members of the nationwide staff have been examined forward of the Video games. 

Nguyễn Tuấn Học, head coach of the staff stated: “The staff had good preparation on the coaching session in Uzbekistan – the place all staff members confronted robust opponents from Asia, gaining beneficial expertise type for the largest regional sporting competitors – the SEA Video games 31.”

“It’s very honour, however there’s stress on all Vietnamese Kurash artists because the SEA Video games 31 is on residence turf. We could have an enormous problem in defending the trophy that we gained on the earlier SEA Video games 30 within the Philippines,” he stated.

“Vietnamese artists have been examined through the all-out coaching and competitions through the 20-day coaching course in Uzbekistan, and we’re all prepared for the SEA Video games 31.”

“The COVID-19 stored us at bay. The pandemic impacted our preparation for the SEA Video games 31.

Hoài Đức Sporting Centre. The venue will host Kurash and Judo on the SEA Video games 31. Việt Nam’s kurash staff are defending SEA Video games champions. VNA/VNS Picture Minh Đức 

“We had a two-year delay due to the COVID in coaching and competing.

“Nonetheless, our athletes now solely have eyes on the goal of high place within the SEA Video games 31.”

Large obligations lay on the shoulders of Nguyễn Thị Lan, who will compete within the ladies’s under-70kg, and Trần Thị Thanh Thuỷ within the ladies’s over-70kg.

Bùi Minh Quân will lead the boys’s division within the under-81kg class, whereas his teammate Trần Thương is contesting the boys’s under-90kg.

Two different high artists, Vũ Ngọc Sơn and Lê Đức Đông, will compete within the males’s under-73kg and under-66kg, respectively.

Some younger skills, similar to Tô Thị Trang (ladies’s under-48kg), Nguyễn Thị Tuyết Hân (ladies’s under-52kg), and Nguyễn Thị Thanh Trâm (ladies’s under-70kg), may add extra golds for Việt Nam.

“Competing on residence turf can be a bonus for us on this Video games. It encourages us to work more durable and defend our golds and Việt Nam’s high place,” stated under-70kg class reigning champion Nguyễn Thị Lan.

Kurash could have athletes competing in ten weight lessons throughout males’s and ladies’s classes on the Hà Nội’s Hoài Đức Gymnasium from Might 10-13.

On the earlier SEA Video games 30 within the Philippines, Việt Nam gained seven golds, one silver and two bronzes.

Kurash is a people wrestling self-discipline primarily practised within the areas of Central Asia. The target of the game is to seize maintain of the opponent by the towel round their waist and throw them onto the bottom on their again.

The fight sport originated within the territory of Uzbekistan about 3,500 years in the past. Trendy kurash has been organised internationally since the tip of the Nineteen Nineties.

The SEA Video games will open on Might 12 and shut on Might 23.