About 80 athletes from districts across Da Nang are taking part in the municipal-level Petanque Championship 2023.

Director of the Da Nang Department of Culture and Sports Pham Tan Xu presenting souvenir flags to participating athletes

Organised by the municipal Department of Culture and Sports, the sporting event provides a playground for athletes to exchange experiences, thereby contributing to promoting the development of the petanque movement in particular and the physical training and sports movement in the city in general.

Through the tournament, the best athletes will be selected for the city's petanque team which will compete in national championships.

Under the tournament’s rules, athletes compete in 6 events, including: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles, men's triples, and women's triples.

In the end, the organisers will award Certificates of Merit and medals to prize, second and third-prize winners.

Athletes competing in the Da Nang Petanque Championship 2023

Petanque is a sport with simple rules, easy to play, and the investment costs of the xourts, equipment and training tools is not large.

From a strange sport, up to now, the movement of petanque has made extensive development in the city. Many petanque clubs and teams have been established in the city.

Currently, the city is building 8 petanque courts at the taekwondo gymnasiums.

Most districts have petanque courts for athletes to practice. In which, the districts of Ngu Hanh Son, Hai Chau, Son Tra, and Thanh Khe witness the strongest development of this kind of sports.

Reporting by PHI NONG - Translating by M.DUNG