South Vietnam
South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam ( vi, Việt Nam Cộng hòa), was a state in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975, the period when the southern portion of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of th ...
during the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.South Vietnam Judo at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games www.sports-reference.com
He started training in judo in 1953 and would become a national champ by the year 1956 under Cu Ton.
He competed at the age of 24, and would place 19th in the Men's lightweight division. He would become a 7th degree black belt in Judo.
In 1962 he started to study Taekwon-do. This was under
Nam Tae Hi
Nam Tae-hi (남태희; 南太熙; 19 March 1929 – 7 November 2013) was a pioneering South Korean master of taekwondoThe story begins back in 1967 in Vietnam By Hung Tri Nguyen www.itkd.co.nz He is the President of ITF-USA and has supported the younger generation of Taekwon-do instructors in Texas and across the United States through seminars, examinations, administrative advice and continued leadership.https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3e7b86_5a0301e544dc49469fd9914104ada897~mv2_d_3166_2774_s_4_2.jpg/v1/fill/w_1907,h_1671,al_c,q_90/3e7b86_5a0301e544dc49469fd9914104ada897~mv2_d_3166_2774_s_4_2.webp