SEA Games 31: Vietnamese runner bags gold hat-trick

Runner Nguyen Thi Oanh

Accordingly, she clocked 9 min 46 sec during the women’s 3,000m hurdles, and broke her own record of 10 min and 0.02 sec set at the previous SEA Games 30.

Earlier, she also triumphed in the women’s 1,500m and 5,000m hurdles categories on May 14 Therefore, she has completed gold hat-trick at the SEA Games 31.

At the SEA Games 30 held in 2019, she also bagged three gold medals in similar hurdles categories.

Nguyen Thi Oanh was born in 1995 in Bac Giang province. Before becoming a Vietnamese outstanding runner, she suffered from glomerulonephritis.

Translated by Minh Anh