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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.
Vietnam competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It was the nation's eleventh appearance at the Olympics as a reunified republic, although the Vietnamese athletes previously attended six other editions under the banner of the State of Vietnam or South Vietnam, except on two occasions: in 1976, as the result of an impact areas in the nation's warzones during ...
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.
Vietnam at the 2020 Summer Olympics; IOC code: VIE: NOC: Vietnam Olympic Committee: Website: www.voc.org.vn (in Vietnamese and English) in Tokyo, Japan July 23, 2021 () – August 8, 2021 () Competitors: 18 in 11 sports: Flag bearers (opening) Quách Thị Lan Nguyễn Huy Hoàng: Flag bearer (closing) volunteer: Medals: Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze ...
The Vietnam Olympic Committee (VOC) fielded a squad of 23 athletes, 9 men and 14 women, to compete in 10 sports at the Games. [1] It was the nation's largest delegation sent to the Olympics in a non-boycotting edition, and the second-largest overall in history, beating the record of 18 athletes who attended the London Games in 2012.
Vietnam Olympic Committee (VOC; Vietnamese: Ủy ban Olympic Việt Nam, IOC code: VIE) or fully the Olympic Committee of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam (Ủy ban Olympic nước Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam) is the National Olympic Committee representing Vietnam.
The Vietnam Athletics Federations (VAF; Vietnamese: Liên đoàn điền kinh Việt Nam) is the national governing body for the sport of athletics in Vietnam.
The distance of the marathon at the Olympics has varied in the early years, before being standardized at 42,195 m in 1924, the distance that was run at the 1908 Olympics. In other years, the distances have been: 1896: 40,000 m (approximately) 1900: 40,260 m (25.02 mi) 1904: 40,000 m (24.85 mi) 1912: 40,200 m (24.98 mi) 1920: 40,750 m (25.32 mi)