Tay Ninh sports' imprints

In recent years, with the orientation of comprehensive development of both mass sports and high-performance sports, Tay Ninh's sports have continuously achieved many outstanding achievements, gradually affirming its position in the region and the country.

Many outstanding achievements

According to the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, in addition to widely developing mass sports movements, school sports, and socializing sports, in recent years, the provincial Sports Training and Competition Center has left many outstanding marks with a series of medals at national and international competitions. For example, the Taekwondo Team of the Provincial Sports Training and Competition Center, in 2024, participated in Taekwondo competitions at the cluster, regional, and national levels and won 22 medals of all kinds.

Mr. Ho Minh Luc - Coach of the Provincial Taekwondo Team, said: "With the development orientation of the sport, the team's athletes are currently selected and supplemented with many young athletes with great development potential, capable of competing for medals. We are trying to train and encourage athletes to strive for tournaments with the goal of achieving higher results than the previous year."

In particular, in recent years, athletics has been prioritized for investment by the provincial Sports Department, and has always been one of the leading athlete training units in the country.

According to statistics from the Provincial Sports Training and Competition Center, in the past 5 years, the Tay Ninh Sports Training and Competition Center (old) has always maintained the number of athletes trained from 150-213 and about 16-19 coaches. Athletes won 435 national and international championship medals, including 15 called up to the national teams.

The Long An Sports Training and Competition Center (old) has 207-227 athletes and nearly 50 coaches. Through national and international competitions, it won 806 medals and 79 athletes were called up to the national teams.

According to statistics, in the first 9 months of 2025, the province's sports teams participated in 77/101 competitions, won 7 Gold Medals, 5 Silver Medals, 3 Bronze Medals at international competitions.

At youth championships, national championships and national club championships, they won 177 medals including 51 Gold Medals, 47 Silver Medals, 79 Bronze Medals. In the national youth competitions, they won 34 medals with 10 gold medals, 10 silver medals, and 14 bronze medals; in the regional and invitational competitions, they won 138 medals, including 31 gold medals, 40 silver medals, and 67 bronze medals.

In particular, at the 2025 National Swimming Championship in the 25m pool, swimmer My Tien left a strong remark when she won 8 gold medals, 1 silver medal, and 1 bronze medal in the individual event and 3 bronze medals in the relay events. My Tien also broke 3 national records in the women's 100m individual medley, 100m breaststroke, and 200m breaststroke.

Director of the Provincial Sports Training and Competition Center Nguyen Bao Hoan affirmed: “Compared to the expected performance target for 2025, the provincial Sports Training and Competition Center has achieved 100% of the target for the year. The competition teams have achieved good results, typically in swimming, bodybuilding, athletics, Taekwondo, kickboxing, Vovinam. The impressive achievements continue to affirm the quality of training and competition, opening up many development opportunities in the future for athletes, contributing to improving national sports achievements. In particular, the three main sports of the province including women's volleyball, athletics and swimming have all achieved great success. A notable mark is that for the first time, the province has 2 athletes, My Tien in swimming and Nhi Yen in athletics, winning the ticket to the 2024 Paris Olympics. In addition, many outstanding national athletes such as the record holder for javelin throwing Hoai Van with 9 times national championship or 4 female volleyball players including Thanh Thuy, Khanh Dang, Kim Thoa and Tra My have continuously contributed to the national team in regional and international tournaments”.

Continuing to prioritize high-performance sports

According to the Provincial Sports Training and Competition Center, in order for provincial sports to continue to achieve achievements, the sports sector always prioritizes the development of high-performance sports with the common goal of gradually perfecting the facilities to meet the training and coaching work.

In particular, focusing on improving the quality of athlete selection and training in strong sports and developing potential sports, creating a new breakthrough to achieve high rankings in National Sports Festivals, national and international tournaments.

In athlete selection, it is necessary to ensure strictness, science, publicity, and transparency to improve the input quality associated with maintaining training in 3 levels: gifted athletes, youth athletes and provincial athletes.

According to Mr. Nguyen Bao Hoan, although the sports sector has encountered many difficulties due to the arrangement and merger of administrative units and difficulties in facilities for training and competition, up to now, the organizational structure of the unit has been operating stably. The unit has also developed a plan for training and developing human resources to serve the work of management, operation, training, science, technology, sports medicine and other specialized fields, meeting the requirements and tasks in the new period.

At the same time, the unit focuses on training the coaching staff, especially young coaches with professional qualifications and good moral qualities, in conjunction with close coordination with the National Sports Training Center, training facilities, and sports clubs to support the selection, training, and development of sports talents, especially in strong sports such as swimming, athletics, volleyball, wrestling, bodybuilding, and martial arts.

"The impressive achievements of the provincial Sports Training Center in recent years not only reflect the right direction chosen but also demonstrate the relentless efforts of athletes and coaching staff. With the existing foundation and the determination and efforts of the entire sector, we will certainly build a solid foundation for the province's sports to reap more achievements" - Mr. Nguyen Bao Hoan said./.

By Staffs - Translated by Q. Thien