Vietnamese female archers pocketed another silver medal on August 17 after missing out to Malaysian athletes in the women’s team compound category at the 29th Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) in Kuala Lumpur.
Archer Chau Kieu Oanh won a silver medal in the women’s individual recurve event. (Photo: VNA)
Kuala Lumpur (VNA) – Vietnamese female archers pocketed another silvermedal on August 17 after missing out to Malaysian athletes in the women’s team compoundcategory at the 29th Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) in Kuala Lumpur.
Chau Kieu Oanh, Le Ngoc Huyen and Nguyen Thi Nhat Le entered the final roundwith considerable pressure from the local audience. The competition ended in atie in the official time and was decided by a “gold arrows” round.
However, Vietnamese team lost 27-28 to the host and brought the second silvermedal to Vietnamese delegation.
Earlier, Chau Kieu Oanh won a silver medal in the women’s individual recurve event,the first medal for Vietnam at the largest regional sport event.
Ten archery categories are featured at the Games, consisting of individualrecurve (men and women), recurve team (men, women and mix), individual compound(men and women) and compound team (men, women and mix).
Vietnam sent more than 470 athletes to compete at the Games in Malaysia fromAugust 19-31. They are scheduled to take part in 32 out of 38 sports and meetabout 6,000 athletes from 10 other countries in the region.-VNA
Nguyen Tien Cuong and Loc Thi Dao are expected to win gold medals in the men’s individual three-string bow and the women’s individual one-string bow events respectively at the 29th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Malaysia.
A 681-strong Vietnamese delegation to the Southeast Asia Games 29 (SEA Games 29) took part in a flag-hoisting ceremony held at Bukit Jalil National Stadium in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on August 16.
The host Malaysia on August 16 won its first gold medal in “chinlone linking” or caneball, which was also the first gold of the 29th Southeast Asia Games (SEA Games 29).
Vietnamese archer Chau Kieu Oanh won a silver medal in the women’s individual three-string bow event at the 29th Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) in Kuala Lumpur.
Malaysian Minister of Sports Khairy Jamaluddin on August 16 admitted that there were some glitches with preparations for the 29th Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) held in Kuala Lumpur.
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The event formed part of Vietnam’s ongoing campaign to seek UNESCO World Heritage status for the complex at the 47th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, scheduled to take place in Paris in July.
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Archer Chau Kieu Oanh won a silver medal in the women’s individual recurve event. (Photo: VNA) 
