Born 1936 (age 81) ( 1936 ) Hanoi, Vietnam | ||
Nguyễn Văn Bình (born 1936) was a Vietnamese judoka. He was a judo competitor for South Vietnam during the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.
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 Taekwondo. This was under Nam Tae Hi who was a Korean military instructor as part of the initial group of officers in the South Vietnamese Army. He would establish 9 schools of martial arts in Vietnam and teach over 60,000 students before the Fall of Saigon in 1975. He would later earn a 9th degree blackbelt in Taekwondo. He operates a school in Houston Texas.