The Vietnam Weightlifting, because of valuable endeavoring and seriousness adopted within the recent years, has achieved a valuable honor. Due to the latest list issued by IWF, Vietnamese have allocated two quotas for 2008 Beijing Olympic Games that one of them belongs to the men and another one belongs to the women. The single women quota was gotten in the Asian Championships held in Kanazawa , Japan . Vietnamese female weightlifters by obtaining six silver medals and 442 points, became the fourth in that Championships. Men's quota allocated to Vietnam in the section of Individual Qualification by IWF. This quota was allocated to Vietnam after investigating of different countries' weightlifters in octamerous weighs. Vietnamese can nominate just one athlete between Hoang Anh tuan and Nguyen Manh Thang the lifters of 56kg. And 62 kg.
28/06/2008