A female boxer from the northern province of Hoa Binh has won a gold medal at the 2024 National Boxing Championship.


Bui Thi Thuy (2nd from left) wins a gold medal at the 2024 National Boxing Championship. 

Born and growing up in Luong Ca hamlet, Ngo Luong commune – a specially disadvantaged mountainous commune of Tan Lac district, Bui Thi Thuy leaves impression on others with her good looking, height, and charming smile. 

With a passion and talent for sports, the girl born in 2006 is an outstanding athlete in mass sports movements at the grassroots level. 

In 2018, when teachers and coaches from a sports training school for the talented came to Thuy’s school to recruit students, she was targeted. 

Thuy’s parents are farmers and no one in her family follows sports career. However, her family supported and encouraged her to pursue her dream of becoming a boxer. 

During her training, she has been given opportunities to compete in many boxing tournaments. Unfortunately, she had never once touched a gold medal. 

At the 2023 National Boxing Championship, Thuy bagged a bronze medal. With many regrets, Thuy told herself that she must constantly strive to improve her performance in the next season. 

At the 2024 tournament, with her courage, confidence, and determination to compete with all her might to achieve the highest results, Thuy excellently won a gold medal. 

In the final match against her rival from Bac Ninh province, Thuy won overwhelmingly with the results of 4-1, 3-2, and 4-1 in the women's 63kg weight category, age group of 17-18. 

Thuy said I always tell myself to keep improving physical strength and skills, having a strong will, and maximizing my strengths and abilities. During competitions, it is a must to be calm, confident, alert, carefully observe opponents, seize opportunities to make smart moves.

At the 2024 National Boxing Championship, Hoa Binh province's boxing team included a coach and three athletes, winning one gold medal, and two bronze medals. Khuat Van Tuan, teacher of the boxing class at the sports school and also Thuy’s coach, said that Thuy had to work hard to prepare for the 2024 national championship. She also had to study for the high school graduation exam at the same time. He noted that boxing is a combat sport, female athletes will have to work harder. Thuy often gets injured, but she is not discouraged.

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