Nguyễn Thị Mỹ Hạnh (born 28 September 1997) is a Vietnamese

freestyle wrestler Freestyle wrestling is a style of wrestling originated from Great Britain and the United States. Along with Greco-Roman, it is one of the two styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic Games. American high school and men's college wrestling i ...

. She is a gold medalist at the Southeast Asian Games and a bronze medalist at the

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Career

She won one of the bronze medals in the women's freestyle 62kg event at the

2018 Asian Games The 2018 Asian Games ( id, Pesta Olahraga Asia 2018 or ''Asian Games 2018''), officially known as the 18th Asian Games and also known as Jakarta-Palembang 2018 or Indonesia 2018, was a Asia, continental multi-sport event that was held from 18 A ...

held in Jakarta, Indonesia. At the time, she lost her bronze medal match against

Risako Kawai is a Japanese wrestler. She is a two-time gold medalist at the Olympic Games, a three-time gold medalist at the World Wrestling Championships and a four-time gold medalist at the Asian Wrestling Championships. She finished second at the 2015 ...

of Japan but she was awarded the bronze medal after the original gold medal winner,

Pürevdorjiin Orkhon Pürevdorjiin Orkhon (born December 25, 1993) is a Mongolian freestyle wrestler. She competed in the women's freestyle 58 kg event at the 2016 Summer Olympics, in which she was eliminated in the repechage by Sakshi Malik Sakshi Malik (bor ...

of Mongolia, was stripped of her medal after testing positive for a banned substance. In 2019, she won the gold medal in the women's 62kg event at the Southeast Asian Games held in the Philippines. She again won the gold medal at the

2023 Southeast Asian Games The 2023 Southeast Asian Games ( km, ការប្រកួតកីឡាប្រជាជាតិអាស៊ីអាគ្នេយ៍២០២៣), commonly known as the 32nd Southeast Asian Games, or the 32nd SEA Games, and commonly know ...

in the 62kg event.

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* Living people 1997 births Place of birth missing (living people) Vietnamese female sport wrestlers Asian Games medalists in wrestling Asian Games bronze medalists for Vietnam Wrestlers at the 2018 Asian Games Wrestlers at the 2022 Asian Games Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games SEA Games gold medalists for Vietnam SEA Games medalists in wrestling Competitors at the 2019 SEA Games Competitors at the 2023 SEA Games 21st-century Vietnamese women 21st-century Vietnamese people {{Vietnam-wrestling-bio-stub