Da Nang finished in 3^rd place at the freshly-concluded National Youth Athletics Championship 2018 with 4 golds, 6 silvers and 2 bronzes, after Ha Noi with 9 golds, 3 silvers and 6 bronzes medals), and the Military team with 6 golds, 3 silvers, and 6 bronzes.

The contestants competing at this year’s tournament (Photo: http://thethao.sggp.org.vn)

The city’s positive result mentioned above demonstrates that local athletics sector has impressively bounced back after a period of stalled development, and that the city has succeeded in developing new athletics events in a bid to avoid being left behind by other contenders nationwide.

The 4-day-long tournament, which was held at the Ho Chi Minh City-located Thong Nhat Stadium, attracted as many as 400 athletes in total from 46 teams across the country competing for 47 sets of medals.

The event aimed at selecting the best athletes for the national squads to prepare for the Southeast Asian Games 2019.

In particular, 2 new national records were made at this competition.

In detail, Nguyen Duc Son from Ha Noi set a new record in the men’s 400m hurdles with a time of 52.41secs, beating the competion’s record of 53.15secs set in 2015.

The other record belonged to the Binh Duong men’s 4x 800m team with a time of 7:43.86. They won the gold medal and broke the old record set by Quang Ninh of 7:58.50 in 2009.