The Table Tennis Tournament of the 16th Cup of Vietnamese Journalist Association in 2023: Journalist Association of Hoa Binh Province wins 3 medals

12/19/2023 - 5:30:48 PM

From December 13th – 15th, at Trinh Hoai Duc Gymnasium (Hanoi), Vietnamese Journalist Association in coordination with the Hanoi People's Committee organized the Table Tennis Tournament of the 16th Cup of Vietnamese Journalist Association in 2023.

The Organizing Committee was awarding prizes to the athletes who achieved good results in the men's singles event under 45 years old. The athlete Trung Kien from the sports delegation of Hoa Binh Province’s Journalist Association won the silver medal.

The tournament attracts nearly 200 athletes from 40 press agencies and all levels of Journalists' Associations nationwide, competing in 14 events including men's singles, women's singles, men's team, women's team, men's singles over 45 years old, men's singles under 45 years old, women's singles over 45 years old, women's singles under 45 years old, men's doubles with leadership, women's doubles with leadership, men's doubles, women's doubles, men's and women's doubles over 45 years old, men's and women's doubles under 45 years old. The sports delegation of Hoa Binh Province’s Journalist Association has 5 athletes, competing in 5 events (men's team, men's doubles, men's singles with leadership, men's doubles with leadership, men's singles under 45 years old).

The organizing committee was presenting awards for the the men's doubles content with leadership. The sports delegation of Hoa Binh Province’s Journalist Association won 01 bronze medal.

After 3 days of exciting and determined competition, the sports delegation of our Provincial Journalist Association won 1 silver medal and 2 bronze medals. In the content of men's singles under 45 years old, four athletes, Duy Chung, Trung Kien, Xuan Loc, and Vu Thai, all reached the quarterfinals. Particularly, the athlete Trung Kien (the Provincial Radio and Television) played excellently, trying to overcome 4 knockout rounds to register his name in the final and win a silver medal in this content (in the tournament, in 2022, the athlete Trung Kien won the bronze medal). In the men's singles with leadership, the athlete Van Tuong (Hoa Binh Newspaper) won the bronze medal. In the men's doubles with leadership, the athletes Van Tuong - Trung Kien won the bronze medal. In the men's team event, the Hoa Binh team won Today's Rural Newspaper (January 3), losing to the defending champion the People's Public Security Newspaper (1/3) and ranked the second.

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