Full name Nguyen Thi Anh Vien Nationality Vietnamese Coach Dang Anh Tuan Role Olympic swimmer Weight 53 kg | Nickname(s) Tieu tien ca Name Nguyen Anh Height 1.72 m Parents Nguyen Van Tac, Anh Hong | |
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Born November 9, 1996 (age 28) ( 1996-11-09 ) Can Tho Olympic medals Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women\'s 400 metre individual medley Similar People Katinka Hosszu, Ye Shiwen, Zsuzsanna Jakabos, Lara Grangeon, Barbora Zavadova | ||
Seagame 28 nguy n thi a nh vi n nh n 5 huy ch ng va ng va l p th m ba ky lu c m i
Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên (born November 9, 1996 in Cần Thơ) is a national-record holding swimmer from Vietnam. She swam for Vietnam at the 2012 Olympics. At the 2014 Asian Games, she garnered Vietnam's first-ever medal in Swimming. She has been named Vietnam's Athlete of the Year in both 2013 and 2014. As of the end of 2014, she holds the Vietnam Records in 14 of 17 long course individual events.
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- Seagame 28 nguy n thi a nh vi n nh n 5 huy ch ng va ng va l p th m ba ky lu c m i
- Nguy n th nh vi n v nh ng i u th v v nh vi n nguyen s vietnam
- Swimming career
- 2014 Asian Games
- 28th Sea Games in Singapore
- 16th Fina World Championship in Kazan
- References
At the 2012 Olympics, she swam the 200 Backstroke and the 400 Individual Medley.
Vien is a serving military officer with the rank of captain.
Nguy n th nh vi n v nh ng i u th v v nh vi n nguyen s vietnam
Swimming career
She began swimming with private lessons given by her grandfather. At grade 5, Vien competed for the first time at the district level and easily beat her opponents.
She was quickly spotted by coaches of a military team and soon joined the team.
At 16, Anh Vien was already 1.7 metre tall with long limbs and big feet, considered advantageous attributes of a swimmer.
Anh Vien got ten gold medals, one in each of ten categories at the National Championship. She also won two silver medals at the 26th SEA Games in Indonesia.
Anh Vien competed for the first time at the London Summer Olympics in two categories: 200m backstroke and 400m medley.
At the SEA Games 27 in Myanmar (12/2013), Anh Vien got six medals in total (3 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze), she broke two Sea Games records in 200m backstroke (2 min 14 sec 80) and 400m medley ( pmin 6 gsec 6),.đShe was voted the "Golden Impression of EA Games 27 ".
2014 Asian Games
At the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, Anh Vien won the broze medals in th 200m Backstroke and the 400m Individual Medley event.
28th Sea Games in Singapore
Anh Vien was one of the top swimmers at Sea Games 2015 in Singapore along with native Singaporean Joseph Schooling. She was the best female athlete at this competition when she captures 8 gold medals, 1 silver medal and 1 bronze medal. This excellent result helped Vietnam secured the second place in swimming just behind host Singapore.
16th Fina World Championship in Kazan
At the 2015 FINA Swimming World Cup in Moscow, Anh Vien moved into the semifinals in 200m IM but placed 8 in her heat. In the 400m individual medley she missed the final.