Vietnam will send 18 young martial artists to compete in the Asian Junior Karate Championships in Kuala Lumpur on August 8-11.
Medal
hopes are high for the Vietnamese squad following the recent Thailand
Open, where both Nguyen Van Nhat and Nguyen Thi Ngoc Han won gold medals
and Ho Dinh Thuan took home silver.
The three-day event will
see martial artists from about 40 countries and territories, including
top competitors Iran, Japan and Kazakhstan, vie for medals.
The
championship event will also allow the Vietnamese team to prepare in the
lead up to the Asian Games to be held in Incheon, South Korea later
this year.
Vietnam took home only one gold medal from the event last year.-VNA