SEA Video games 2023: Vietnamese athlete scoops two golds in half an hour

Vietnam’s Nguyen Thi Oanh celebrates as she crosses the end line within the ladies’s 3000m steeplechase closing through the thirty second Southeast Asian Video games (SEA Video games) in Phnom Penh on Could 9, 2023. (Picture by MOHD RASFAN / AFP)

A star Vietnamese athlete gained the ladies’s 1,500m and the three,000m steeplechase inside half an hour of one another on the Southeast Asian Video games on Tuesday, in an imperious show of regional monitor dominance.

Nguyen Thi Oanh was the reigning gold medalist in each occasions, in addition to the 5,000m — which she efficiently defended a day earlier.

Tuesday’s wins give her a complete of 11 golds.

At 5:30pm in a scorching and humid Phnom Penh, the 27-year-old kicked off with the 1,500m closing, profitable it in 4:16.850, eight seconds forward of compatriot Thi Ngan Bui.

That gave her quarter-hour or so to chill down earlier than lining up at 5:50pm for the three,000m steeplechase.

Even with contemporary our bodies and minds, the competitors couldn’t sustain, Nguyen’s time of 10:34.370 placing her six seconds forward of the Philippines’ Joida Gadot Gagnao, who took silver.

“After I knew that I couldn’t change the schedule, I accepted it and resolved to overcome the problem,” she advised reporters on the monitor.

“In fact, me and my coaches additionally ready the perfect technique for me to save lots of as a lot time and power as attainable for each races,” she added, saying she requested to delay her first doping take a look at till after the second race was performed.

The runner stated she was “very drained, however I’m completely satisfied that I completed the races this afternoon”.

Although the velocity of turnover was new for Nguyen, she has beforehand gained same-day golds, within the 5,000m and three,000m steeplechase on the 2019 SEA Video games.

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