Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics

2000 Summer Olympics

The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

in Sydney

Sydney

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, Australia

Australia

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. The Vietnam Sports Contingent participated in Sydney with fifteen members including (seven athletes, five coaches and three officials) in four sports: athletics, swimming, shooting and taekwondo. The Asian nation won its first ever Olympic medal at these Games.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
	Tran Hieu Ngan Tran Hieu Ngan Hieu Ngan Tran is a Vietnamese Taekwondo athlete who competed in the Women's 49-57 kg weight class at the 2000 Summer Olympics, and she won the silver medal....	Taekwondo	women's (57 kg)

Athletics

Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics

At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, 46 events in athletics were contested, 24 for men and 22 for women. There were a total number of 2134 participating athletes from 193 countries.-Men's events:...

Men's 100m

• Luong Tich Thien
  1. Round 1 — 10.85 (did not advance)

Women's 100m Hurdles

• Vu Bich Huong
  1. Round 1 - 13.61 (did not advance)

Swimming

Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics

At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, 32 swimming events were contested, between September 15–23, 2000. There was a total of 954 participants from 150 countries competing.-Medal table:-Men:...

Men's 200m Breaststroke

• Nguyen Ngoc Anh
  1. Preliminary Heat — 02:29.54 (did not advance)

Women's 400m Individual Medley

• Nguyen Thi Huong
  1. Preliminary Heat — 05:26.56 (did not advance)

Taekwondo

Taekwondo at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Taekwondo was contested as an official sport at the Olympic Games for the first time at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. It had previously been a demonstration sport in 1988 and 1992. Medals were awarded in four weight classes each for men and women...

• Mai Nguyen thi Xuan
• Tran Hieu Ngan
  Tran Hieu Ngan
  Hieu Ngan Tran is a Vietnamese Taekwondo athlete who competed in the Women's 49-57 kg weight class at the 2000 Summer Olympics, and she won the silver medal....