According to the schedule announced by the ASIAD 19 Organizing Committee, the Vietnamese sports delegation has 3 athletes playing Boxing today. These are Nguyen Thi Tam (weight of 50kg women), Nguyen Thi Ngoc Tran (54kg weight class) and Ha Thi Linh (weight of 60kg women). They all fell into the fighting branch very difficult to head to the medal.
Overcoming the difficult schedule, the athletes of the Vietnamese boxing team had a good start on the first day of competition. Plitting in the 60kg weight -class qualifying round, Ha Thi Linh boxer encountered Sunar Sangita (Nepal) in the afternoon of 24/9. Ha Thi Linh is also the defending champion of the SEA Games in this weight class.
Before a very strong opponent from South Asia, Ha Thi Linh played very well to always control the match and play on the opponent. She won convincingly in the first half, when all 5 assessments were spent 10-9. The Thang was continued by Ha Thi Linh for the rest of the match, even though she was deducted 1 point in the second half.
At the end of 3 rounds, Ha Thi Linh won 5-0, when the total score of the three inspections was 29-27 in favor of Vietnamese boxers. This result brought Ha Thi Linh into the round of 1/8, where she encountered the host of the host Yang Wen Lu. Yang has just won a bronze medal in the world, and is considered as one of the ASIAD candidates in this weight class.
In the remaining 2 matches today, Vietnamese boxers will play in the evening. Nguyen Thi Tam encountered Nikhat Zareeen, the current world champion of 50kg women's weight. Meanwhile, Nguyen Thi Ngoc Tran met Nigora Olimova, the rookie of the Boxing Tajikistan team.