International Master Tran Tuan Minh tied with Harsha Bhrathakoti of India in the seventh round at the ongoing World Junior (U-20) Chess Championship in India.

FIFA-level referee Teetichai Nualjan will supervise the match between Dong Tam Long An and Hoang Anh Gia Lai in the 21st round of the V.League 1 today, the Vietnam Football Federation has announced.

 Vietnamese athletics officially wrapped up its Rio Olympic campaign on the morning of August 16 as sprinter Nguyen Thi Huyen failed to break through the preliminary round of the women’s 400m hurdles event. 

 A total of 64 international and domestic players will compete at the fifth BTV-Becamex IJD International Three-cushion Billiards Carom Tournament, scheduled in Binh Duong province on August 19-21.

 Nguyen Thi Huyen did not succeed in entering the next round of the women’s 400m hurdles at the Rio Olympics after losing in her qualifying heat on August 15 (local time). 

 Tran Tuan Minh lost to Alekseenko Kirill of Russia in the sixth round of the ongoing World Junior (U-20) Chess Championship in India.

Poilane Florent of France won the 19-40 age group category of the National Off Road Cycling Tournament for amateurs, Vietnam MTB Series, which wrapped up in HCM City on August 14.

 Vietnam’s top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh was unable to pull off a miracle win against Lin Dan, the two-time Olympic champion, on the ninth competition day of the Rio 2016 Olympics, August 14 (local time). 

 Many people gave Hoang Xuan Vinh a hero’s welcome upon his return to Hanoi, after yesterday’s Rio Olympics victory.

Shooter Hoang Xuan Vinh's historic shots infographic

 Vietnam will compete in the Asia Road Racing Championship’s (ARRC) fifth and sixth stages.

 Vietnamese badminton player Vu Thi Trang defeated Indonesia’s Lindaweni Fanetri 2-0 in the women’s singles group J on the eighth day of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 13 (Brazil time). 

 A team each from Malaysia, Laos and Thailand will take part in the 2016 VTV International Cycling Tournament later this month.

 Brazilian Vasco da Gama club will compete at the Vietnam International U21 Football Championship this year.

Vu Thi Trang is hard at work preparing for her upcoming competition, getting her rackets and shuttles ready, warming up, and starting her training with a senior teammate in Brazil.

Hoang Xuan Vinh, a 41-year-old serving army colonel, has made history in Rio with a near perfect shot to clinch gold at the men's 10-metre air pistol event with a near-perfect final shot.

Vietnam's Vuong Trong Nghia is honoured to have been chosen as one of 34 boxing referees by the International Boxing Association to officiate at the Rio Olympics.

 Fencer Do Thi Anh followed her senior teammates, finishing her tournament at the Rio Olympic Games yesterday in Brazil.

Vietnamese shooter Hoang Xuan Vinh yesterday won the silver medal in the final round of the men’s 50m pistol event at the ongoing Rio Olympics.

 Vietnam will meet Thailand at the U19 Invitational Cup football tournament later this month.