After Nguyen Thi Tru (bicycle), Trinh Thu Vinh, Le Thi Mong Tuyen (shooting) and Nguyen Huy Hoang (swimming), Vo Thi Kim Anh (Boxing) have become the fifth athlete of Vietnamese sports to win the official ticket to attend the Paris Olympic Games. Kim Anh is also the fifth Vietnamese boxing player in history to do this.
According to information iThethao.vn Noting, Vo Thi Kim Anh was born in 1997 (27 years old), An Giang hometown. She is one of the adult athletes from the An Giang boxing team, the unit with the tradition of developing this Olympic sport for many years. One of the athletes of the same age as Kim Anh and also played until now Nguyen Thi Phuong Hoai, the fighter currently belonging to the Binh Duong delegation.
One of the first national tournaments Kim Anh attended was the 2014 National Sports Festival. At that time, Kim Anh was only 17 years old but won 2 consecutive victories to reach the group of 4 strongest boxers in the 54kg class. In the semi -finals, Kim Anh lost to Nguyen Thi Tam and received the final bronze medal.
After winning the national bronze medal in 2015 and 2016, in 2017, Kim Anh first won the championship. In the 48kg final of the 2017 Boxing Women, she won the senior Trinh Thi Diem Kieu. This is one of the biggest surprises of the tournament that year.
In the period of 2018-2019, when Diem Kieu regained the peak performance, Kim Anh was always the most difficult opponent of the military boxer. By 2020, Kim Anh shifted to a 54kg weight competition. This is the place where she became a “holder”, the strongest boxer, the leading candidate for the national championship.
In the international arena, Kim Anh also attended a number of previous awards and had a bad achievement. In 2019, she attended the President's Cup, the tournament held in Indonesia. Kim Anh only loses the legendary Mary Kom of India in the semi -final and received bronze medal.
By 2022, Kim Anh was one of the Vietnamese boxing players to Thailand to fight and win the gold medal in Thailand expanded (formerly the King's Cup). Losing Kim Anh in the final of the tournament, Sirine Charaabi, the Italian boxer has just won tickets to the Olympic Games on the same day as the representative of Vietnam.
Entering 2023, Kim Anh was called to the national team to compete at the World Women's Boxing Championship. She lost against Mongolian boxer Munguntseteg Enkhjargal in the first match. At the end of the tournament, Kim Anh was not selected to attend the SEA Games as well as the Asian European Olympics.
Kim Anh ended in 2023 by successfully defending the 54kg championship at the National Boxing Championship. Not long after that, she was called back to the national team and practiced in Hanoi. In the Olympic qualifying round, Kim Anh won 3 consecutive victories to officially win tickets to Paris.