The Asian Men’s Volleyball Championships, hosted by the northern provinces of Ninh Binh and Nam Dinh, opened in Ninh Binh on June 28.

HCM City will send 12 badminton players and two coaches to Thailand for a short training course in an attempt to find new talent.

Head coach Nguyen Huu Thang on June 27 selected 28 players for the national U23 team for the upcoming 2018 AFC U23 Championship qualifiers.

 The K-League All Stars team will arrive in Vietnam with 18 players for a friendly match, according to coach Hwang Sun-hong.

Vietnam officially concluded its campaign at the second Eastern Asian Youth Chess Championships 2017 on June 25, racking up a total of 20 gold, 20 silver and 12 bronze medals across different age groups for both boys and girls.

Vietnam’s women’s football team moved up one place from No 33 to 32 in the world ranking for the second quarter of 2017.

 Vietnam team ranked eighth at the FIDE World Women’s Team Championship, which wrapped up in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, on June 26.

More than 100 paragliders from around the world took part in a paragliding festival at TienSa Beach in the central coastal city of Danang on June 23-25.

 Hanoi Football Club will compete in the Gothia World Youth Cup 2017 from July 16-22 in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Young Vietnamese chess players won 20 gold medals at the Eastern Asian Youth Chess Championships which concluded in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on June 25.

Vietnam’s top tennis player Ly Hoang Nam came from behind to beat number two seed, Jankovits Yannick of France, with a score of 2-1 in the Thailand F3 Futures final on June 24, thereby claiming the men’s singles title in a convincing manner.

 The Vinh Long International Table Tennis Tournament is scheduled to begin on July 7-9 at Vinh Long Sports Centre.

 Vietnamese Truong Thi Kim Tuyen won a silver medal at the 2017 WTF World Taekwondo Championships in the Republic of Korea on June 25, a milestone for Vietnamese taekwondo.

 Ong Soon Seng from Malaysia won the 70km category of the Tam Dao Mountain Trail, which concluded in Tam Dao town in the northern province of Vinh Phuc on June 25.

 Vietnam’s top tennis player Ly Hoang Nam won the men’s singles title of the Thailand F3 Men’s Futures tennis tournament on June 24.

 The Da Nang Paragliding Open 2017, themed “Flying over Tien Sa”, kicked off in the central coastal city of Da Nang on June 24.

Aerobics coaches from eight countries are taking part in an international aerobics coaching course in Hanoi from June 19-27.

 Miguel Rodrigo was appointed as head coach of Vietnam National Futsal Team from 2017 - 2020, the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) announced in a ceremony in HCM City on June 24.

 Lý Hoàng Nam has qualified for the final of the men’s singles category of the Thailand F3 Futures tennis tournament on Friday.

 District 8 triumphed at the HCM City Open Futsal Championships, LS Cup, which finished in the City on June 22.