Khanh Hoa Province's sports overcame a year of challenges with many positive results in volleyball, athletics, football, etc. Especially, in the complicated context of Covid-19 pandemic, Khanh Hoa has become one of the safe and ideal destinations for major domestic sport events, opening up new prospects for the province's sports.
Khanh Hoa Province’s sports overcame a year of challenges with many positive results in volleyball, athletics, football, etc. Especially, in the complicated context of Covid-19 pandemic, Khanh Hoa has become one of the safe and ideal destinations for major domestic sport events, opening up new prospects for the province’s sports.
Maintaining achievements of major sports
Overcoming a lot of difficulties in 2020, Khanh Hoa’s major sports tried to maintain their activities and gained many encouraging achievements. As for football, the sponsor for Khanh Hoa’s football faced economic slowdown caused by the pandemic, which threatened the funding for the provincial football team. Khanh Hoa football was almost on the edge of disappearing in the domestic playground as it did eight years ago. The intervention of the province’s officials and departments helped to save the province’s football team.
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The athletics athletes of Khanh Hoa in 2020 did not have much time for practicing and training activities as well as tournaments to gain experience and improve skills. However, Khanh Hoa athletics athletes surmounted the obstacles and secured many outstanding results. Specifically, Tran Nhat Hoang won three gold medals in SEA Games 30; Tran Anh Cuong, Phan Duong Minh, Nguyen Ho Hai Trieu contributed to the result of Khanh Hoa’s sports delegation at he national athletics championship with one gold medal and one bronze medal, putting Khanh Hoa at the 14th out of 49 sports delegations.
One of the outstanding achievements of Khanh Hoa’s sports last year was the championship of the provincial male volleyball team, Sanest Khanh Hoa, at the national championship taking place in Nha Trang. That was the fruit of the tireless efforts of Sanest Khanh Hoa players. They won against strong Ho Chi Minh City team, the 2019 champions, to claim the second national championship after 12 years. This has also been the third trophy of Khanh Hoa’s volleyball in the domestic tournaments so far.
A safe destination for sports events
Surmounting the obstacles in a challenging year of 2020, Khanh Hoa Province has become a safe destination for sport events in the country. Only in December 2020, the provincial sports sector cooperated with the local and national agencies to organize five major sports tournaments, including the central region stage of the National 7-a-side Football Championship - Hyundai Cup 2020 By TC Motor, the final round of National U21 Championship 2020, the National Basketball Championship 2020, the National Basketball Championship 2020, and the National Beach Football Championship 2020. All the five tournaments were successfully organized and well received by the public with thousands of spectators in and outside the province seeing the competitions.
“Khanh Hoa is a land with cool climate and many famous tourist attractions, so most teams want major tournaments to be organized here,” said Nguyen Cong Khe, chairman of the board of directors of Thanh Nien Media Corporation. Khanh Hoa’s leaderships created favorable conditions for the tournaments to be held in the province. Besides, people in Khanh Hoa showed their great interest in sports; therefore, the province has been considered as an ideal venue for major sports events, Khe added.
These features are considered as the potential for not only the sports sector but also other sectors such as tourism. Professor, PhD Lam Quang Thanh, former deputy director of the General Department of Sports and former director of Vietnam Sport Science Institute, stated in a recent conference that Khanh Hoa was a land with potential to promote economic, sport and tourism activities.
An Nhien
Translated by H.N
