Châu Tuyết Vân (born in 1990) is a Vietnamese

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and Taekwondo practitioner. She is a member of the Vietnamese Taekwondo national team, with a record of 6 consecutive gold medals at the SEA Games, 5 consecutive gold medals at the World Championships, 2 consecutive gold medals at the

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, and 1 Gold Medal at the Southeast Asian Games in the synchronized

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event. She achieved the sixth-degree

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certification in 2018 at the age of 28.

Biography

Châu Tuyết Vân was born in 1990 and grew up in

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with her family. She started practicing Taekwondo at the age of 7. Due to her strong foundation, she was called up to the national team in 2009 to participate in the 25th SEA Games in

Laos Laos (, ''Lāo'' )), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ, French: République démocratique populaire lao), is a socialist ...

. In her debut appearance, she and her teammates won a bronze medal, marking her first international medal in her career.

Career

2013

At the World Poomsae Taekwondo Championships in 2013, three Vietnamese girls, including Châu Tuyết Vân, won two gold medals in the team

and creative poomsae events. Nguyễn Thị Lệ Kim, Nguyễn Thị Thu Ngân, and Châu Tuyết Vân were the first female athletes to win gold medals for Vietnam in Taekwondo at the

2013 Southeast Asian Games The 2013 Southeast Asian Games ( my, ၂၀၁၃ ခုနှစ် အရှေ့တောင် အာရှ အားကစား ပြိုင်ပွဲ), officially known as the 27th Southeast Asian Games, or the 27th SEA Games, and comm ...

2014

In 2014, Châu Tuyết Vân, together with Nguyễn Thị Lệ Kim and Nguyen Thuy Xuan Linh, won the gold medal in the team poomsae event at the World Poomsae Taekwondo Championships. She also participated in the Youth Championship and the Southeast Asian Championship, winning two gold medals in the under-30 women's team event and the 5-member creative poomsae event.

2015

At the 2015 SEA Games in

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, Châu Tuyết Vân, Nguyễn Thị Lệ Kim, and Nguyen Thuy Xuan Linh won the gold medal in the women's team poomsae event.

2016

In 2016, at the World Poomsae Taekwondo Championships, Vietnam won a silver medal in the under-30 women's standard team event on the first day of competition, thanks to the contributions of Châu Tuyết Vân, Nguyễn Thị Lệ Kim, and Lien Thi Tuyet Mai. On the second day, Vietnam won two silver medals and one bronze medal. In the under-17 creative poomsae team event, Châu Tuyết Vân, Nguyễn Thị Lệ Kim, Hứa Văn Huy, Nguyen Thien Phung, and Le Thanh Trung won the silver medal.

2017

In August and September 2017, the Vietnamese Taekwondo poomsae team participated in three consecutive tournaments and achieved success in all of them. In the women's team poomsae event, Nguyễn Thị Lệ Kim, Châu Tuyết Vân, and Nguyen Thi Tuyet Mai won 3 gold medals at the 2017 SEA Games and the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games. At the 2017 SEA Games, Châu Tuyết Vân, Lien Thi Tuyet Mai, and Nguyễn Thị Lệ Kim successfully defended their gold medal in the women's team poomsae event.

2018

The following year, Vietnam won its first gold medal in the women's team poomsae event under 30 years old. Three athletes, Ngo Thi Thuy Dung, Lien Thi Tuyet, and Nguyễn Thị Lệ Kim, performed well to score 8.210 points.

2019

Hứa Văn Huy and Châu Tuyết Vân won

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at the 2019 Chungju World

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Masterships Châu Tuyết Vân, competed along with Tran Ho Duy, Nguyễn Thị Lệ Kim, Hứa Văn Huy, Nguyen Ngoc Minh Hy in the category of Taekwondo, Synchronized Creative Poomsae. They won a gold medal at the

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2022

They participated in a performance with five athletes (3 males: Hứa Văn Huy, Nguyen Ngoc Minh Hy, and Tran Dang Khoa; 2 females: Châu Tuyết Vân, Nguyễn Thị Lệ Kim). With high-level techniques such as spinning kicks and aerial moves, they scored 7.799 points. They won a gold medal at the 2021 SEA Games.

2023

Châu Tuyết Vân, Hứa Văn Huy, Le Ngoc Han, Nguyen Thi Y Binh, and Tran Dang Khoa competed in the mixed gender creative poomsae event at the 2023 US Open Taekwondo Championship and won a gold medal. Châu Tuyết Vân also won a gold medal in the individual poomsae event for women. On May 12, 2023, in the finals of the synchronized creative poomsae event, Nguyen Ngoc Minh Hy, Nguyen Thi Mong Quynh, Hứa Văn Huy, Châu Tuyết Vân, and Tran Dang Khoa won a gold medal at the 32nd SEA Games.

References

{{Authority control 1990 births Living people Vietnamese female taekwondo practitioners 21st-century Vietnamese women 21st-century Vietnamese people Taekwondo practitioners at the 2018 Asian Games