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Athletics has been contested at every Summer Olympics since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics. The athletics program traces its earliest roots to events used in the ancient Greek Olympics. The modern program includes track and field events, road running events, and race walking events.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 20,000 m walk (track) 1:36:09+ Nguyễn Thành Ngưng: 17 September 2019 Vietnamese Championships Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 20 km walk (road) 1:23:29 Nguyễn Thành Ngưng: 20 March 2016 Asian Race Walking Championships: Nomi, Japan [24] 50 km walk (road) 4 × 100 m relay: 39.87 Vietnam Nguyễn Đình Vũ Trịnh ...
Vietnam competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. The delegation included fifteen members (nine athletes, three coaches, and three officials) in five sport disciplines: athletics, swimming, wrestling, shooting, and cycling. [1]
Jason Statham (/ ˈ s t eɪ θ əm / STAY-thəm; born 26 July 1967) is an English actor and producer. He is known for portraying tough, gritty, or violent characters in various action thriller films, and has been credited for leading the resurgence of action films during the 2000s and 2010s. [ 1 ]
This was fewer than were set at the Beijing Olympics (5 world, 17 Olympic records) but greater than the number set at the 2004 Games in Athens (2 world, 10 Olympic records). China's Chen Ding was the first Olympic record breaker, improving the men's 20 km walk record. [ 33 ]
Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics were held during the last ten days of the Games. They were due to be held from 31 July – 9 August 2020, at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo , Japan. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the games were postponed to 2021, with the track and field events set for 30 July – 8 August. [ 1 ]
But in Athletics (excluding relays) the maximum for a single country is three. In the beginning, before the Olympics became a global event, sweeps were more common amongst fewer competing countries and larger numbers of entries from a single country. After the 1908 Olympics, a sweep became an increasingly treasured status symbol of national ...
The present Vietnam Olympic Committee was formed in 1976 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1979. Vietnam has never competed in the Winter Olympics . Vietnam won its first medal at the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney , when Trần Hiếu Ngân took home a silver in Taekwondo in the Women's -57 kg category.