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Vietnam At The 2000 Summer Olympics
Vietnam competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Vietnam was represented by seven athletes in four sports, and won their first Olympic medal. Medalists Results by event Athletics Men's 100m * Lương Tích Thiện *# Round 1 – 10.85 (did not advance) Women's 100m Hurdles * Vũ Bích Hường *# Round 1 – 13.61 (did not advance) Shooting * Nguyễn Trung Hiếu Swimming Men's 200m Breaststroke * Nguyễn Ngọc Anh *# Preliminary Heat – 02:29.54 (did not advance) Women's 400m Individual Medley * Nguyễn Thị Hương *# Preliminary Heat – 05:26.56 (did not advance) Taekwondo * Nguyễn Thị Xuân Mai * Trần Hiếu Ngân (SILVER MEDAL) References *Wallechinsky, David (2004). ''The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics (Athens 2004 Edition)''. Toronto, Canada. . *International Olympic Committee (2001)The Results Retrieved 12 November 2005. *Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001)Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Vol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vietnam Olympic Committee
Vietnam Olympic Committee ( vi, Ủy ban Olympic Việt Nam, IOC code: VIE) is the National Olympic Committee representing Vietnam. References External links * * Vietnam Olympic Olympic or Olympics may refer to Sports Competitions * Olympic Games, international multi-sport event held since 1896 ** Summer Olympic Games ** Winter Olympic Games * Ancient Olympic Games, ancient multi-sport event held in Olympia, Greece b ... Vietnam at the Olympics 1976 establishments in Vietnam Sports organizations established in 1976 {{Vietnam-sport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nguyễn Trung Hiếu
Nguyễn Trung Hiếu (born 21 September 1979) is a Vietnamese sports shooter. He competed in the men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol event at the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from .... References External links * 1979 births Living people Vietnamese male sport shooters Olympic shooters for Vietnam Shooters at the 2000 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) Shooters at the 1998 Asian Games Shooters at the 2002 Asian Games Asian Games competitors for Vietnam 20th-century Vietnamese people {{Vietnam-sportshooting-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nations At The 2000 Summer Olympics
A nation is a community of people formed on the basis of a combination of shared features such as language, history, ethnicity, culture and/or society. A nation is thus the collective identity of a group of people understood as defined by those features. Some nations are equated with ethnic groups (see ethnic nationalism) and some are equated with affiliation to a social and political constitution (see civic nationalism and multiculturalism). A nation is generally more overtly political than an ethnic group. A nation has also been defined as a cultural-political community that has become conscious of its autonomy, unity and particular interests. The consensus among scholars is that nations are socially constructed and historically contingent. Throughout history, people have had an attachment to their kin group and traditions, territorial authorities and their homeland, but nationalism – the belief that state and nation should align as a nation state – did not become a promine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nguyễn Thị Xuân Mai
Nguyễn Thị Xuân Mai (born 2 July 1979) is a Vietnamese taekwondo practitioner. She competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She won a silver medal at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok Bangkok, officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estimated populati .... References External links * 1979 births Living people Vietnamese female taekwondo practitioners Olympic taekwondo practitioners for Vietnam Taekwondo practitioners at the 2000 Summer Olympics Taekwondo practitioners at the 1998 Asian Games Taekwondo practitioners at the 2002 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in taekwondo Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games Asian Games silver medalists for Vietnam 20th-century Vietnamese women {{Vietnam-sport-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taekwondo At The 2000 Summer Olympics
Taekwondo was contested as an official sport at the Olympic Games for the first time at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. It had previously been a demonstration sport in 1988 and 1992. Medals were awarded in four weight classes each for men and women. Tran Hieu Ngan became the first Vietnamese Olympic medalist in this competition. Qualification Medal summary Men's events Women's events Medal table Participating nations A total of 103 taekwondo jins from 51 nations competed at the Sydney Games: Controversies * Bronze medalist Chi Shu-Ju, Hamide Bıkçın Tosun, Hadi Saei and Pascal Gentil complained to the media about what they perceived as biased refereeing which made them lose their possible gold medal. Pascal Gentil even refused to be photographed with his fellow medalists Kim Kyong-Hun and Daniel Trenton in the medal ceremony. Gold medalist Steven López revealed some inside story from his viewpoint in his family's 2009 book, ''Family Power: The True Story ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nguyễn Thị Hương
Nguyễn Thị Hương (born March 5, 1982) is a Vietnamese former swimmer, who specialized in individual medley events. Nguyen swam for Vietnam in the women's 400 m individual medley at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She received a ticket from FINA FINA (french: Fédération internationale de natation, en, International Swimming Federation, link=yes) (to be renamed as World Aquatics by ) is the international federation recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for administer ..., under a Universality program, in an entry time of 5:24.94. She participated in heat one against three other swimmers Georgina Bardach of Argentina, 26-year-old Jana Korbasová of Slovakia, and Alexandra Zertsalova of Kyrgyzstan. She rounded out a small field to last place in 5:26.56, the slowest of all in the heats, just two seconds off her lifetime best and entry standard. Nguyen failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed twenty-eighth overall on the first day of p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nguyễn Ngọc Anh (swimmer)
Nguyễn Ngọc Anh (born October 26, 1981) is a Vietnamese former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events. Nguyen qualified only for the men's 200 m breaststroke at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, by receiving a Universality place from FINA FINA (french: Fédération internationale de natation, en, International Swimming Federation, link=yes) (to be renamed as World Aquatics by ) is the international federation recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for administer ..., in an entry time of 2:23.75. He participated in heat one against two other swimmers Andrés Bicocca of Argentina and Leonard Ngoma of Zambia. He raced to a second seed by more than a full body length behind winner Bicocca in 2:29.54. Nguyen failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed forty-fifth overall in the prelims. References External links * 1981 births Living people Vietnamese male swimmers Olympic swimmers for Vietnam Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swimming At The 2000 Summer Olympics
The swimming competitions at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney took place from 16 to 23 September 2000 at the Sydney International Aquatic Centre in Homebush Bay. It featured 32 events (16 male, 16 female), and a total of 954 swimmers from 150 nations. The swimming program for 2000 was expanded from 1996, with the inclusion of the semifinal phase in each of the events except for some special cases. Long-distance swimming events (400 m freestyle, 800 m freestyle, 1500 m freestyle, and 400 m individual medley) and all relays still maintained the old format with only two phases: heats and final. Because of the radical changes in the competition format, it was extended into an eight-day program and thereby continued into the present era. Swimmers from the United States were the most successful, winning 14 golds, 8 silver, and 11 bronze to lead the overall medal count with 33. Meanwhile, Australia had produced a total of 18 medals (five golds, nine silver, and four bronze) to clai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shooting At The 2000 Summer Olympics
The shooting competitions at the 2000 Summer Olympics were carried out at the Sydney International Shooting Centre in Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia during the first week of the Games, from Saturday 16 September 2000 to Saturday 23 September 2000. While the rifle, pistol and running target rules were largely unchanged from the Atlanta Games The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ..., two new events were added, raising the number of individual Olympic shooting events to an all-time high of seventeen. Medal summary Medal table Men's events Women's events Participating nations A total of 408 shooters, 262 men and 146 women, from 103 nations competed at the Sydney Games: References External links * {{Shooting at the Summer Olympics 2000 Summer Ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney
Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountains to the west, Hawkesbury to the north, the Royal National Park to the south and Macarthur to the south-west. Sydney is made up of 658 suburbs, spread across 33 local government areas. Residents of the city are known as "Sydneysiders". The 2021 census recorded the population of Greater Sydney as 5,231,150, meaning the city is home to approximately 66% of the state's population. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2017. Nicknames of the city include the 'Emerald City' and the 'Harbour City'. Aboriginal Australians have inhabited the Greater Sydney region for at least 30,000 years, and Aboriginal engravings and cultural sites are common throughout Greater Sydney. The traditional custodians of the land on which modern Sydney stands are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vũ Bích Hường
Vũ Bích Hường (born 30 November 1969) is a retired Vietnamese athlete specialising in the 100 metres hurdles The 100 metres hurdles, or 100-meter hurdles, is a track and field event run mainly by women (the male counterpart is the 110 metres hurdles). For the race, ten hurdles of a height of are placed along a straight course of . The first hurdle is .... She represented her country at two Summer Olympics, in 1996 and 2000, failing to qualify for the second round at both occasions. Her personal best in the event is 13.36 seconds achieved twice in 1999. This is the current national record. She had a traffic accident in December 2014, causing damage to the vertebrae and her left leg limped. Competition record References External links * 1969 births Living people Vietnamese female hurdlers Olympic athletes for Vietnam Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lương Tích Thiện
Lương Tích Thiện (born 24 January 1976) is a Vietnamese sprinter. He competed in the men's 100 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from .... References External links * 1976 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Vietnamese male sprinters Olympic athletes for Vietnam Place of birth missing (living people) Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Asian Games Asian Games competitors for Vietnam 20th-century Vietnamese people 21st-century Vietnamese people {{Vietnam-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
