The coaching staff of the Vietnam Swimming Team affirmed that this is an important tournament for athletes to test their abilities before focusing on the 33rd SEA Games.
Four consecutive World Championship appearances
I have received information that I have officially qualified for the 2025 World Championship. Personally, I appreciate my professional achievements to continue participating in the world's leading prestigious tournament. I know that the world arena is competitive very fiercely, but through each participation, I learn more experiences. I will focus on achieving the most effective professional results., player Pham Thanh Bao discussed.
The Vietnamese swimming team will leave for Singapore to participate in the 2025 World Championship on July 24 and swimmer Pham Thanh Bao is named to participate. The male player shared that his first time participating in a world-level tournament was in 2022. In the above tournament, this player exceeded the standards of the International Water Sports Association (FINA) to compete in the 50m male frog, 100m male and 200m male frog events.
Recalling his participation in the 2022 World Championship, Pham Thanh Bao said: The 2022 World Cup is the biggest international competition I have ever participated in. Before that, I participated in many tournaments at different levels, but to participate in the World Swimming Championship, athletes must meet the prescribed standards. I am lucky to do this.
Just like that, Pham Thanh Bao's professional ability has developed over time. After 2022, the male swimmer from Ben Tre (old) (now Vinh Long) will meet FINA standards to compete in the 2023 and 2024 World Swimming Championships. This year, Pham Thanh Bao officially has a place in the 2025 World Swimming Championship in the men's 200m frog event.
In terms of age, Pham Thanh Bao is 24 years old. The male player affirmed that all achievements come from hard work. During each training day, Pham Thanh Bao always completes a wide range of swimming exercises at high intensity.
Pham Thanh Bao explained: People only see athletes going down to the competition tank, but in reality, to fully achieve the strengths and weaknesses, we have to practice endurance exercises, do weight training for strength and practice professional techniques. The frog swimming event is a special event, so the technical training process is already difficult, when competing, it is even more difficult to achieve the fastest speed".
The person who broke the record dangately
Vietnamese swimming has previously recognized the veteran swimmer Nguyen Huu Viet as the most successful player in the male frog swimming events. When competing, Nguyen Huu Viet was the first person to win a Gold Medal for the Vietnamese Swimming Team at the Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) and holds the national record for all distances in male frog swimming. However, Pham Thanh Bao has surpassed those milestones. With outstanding performance, Pham Thanh Bao holds the national record for the men's 50m frog distance (28 seconds 28), men's 100m frog (1 minute 00 seconds 97), men's 200m frog (2 minutes 11 seconds 45).
The boy Pham Thanh Bao began to become known to experts after his achievements at the National Youth Youth Championship and National Youth Swimming Tournament in 2012. At that time, Pham Thanh Bao was 12 years old.
In some conversations, Thanh Bao said that his career development was to thank his family. "My family is not well off, but when I wanted to pursue a sports career, my father and mother analyzed a lot. My parents didn't want me to have difficulties in life. But when I decided to pursue a career as a swimmer, my mother and father encouraged me a lot.
In international tournaments, after winning, I always call home to inform my first relatives, Pham Thanh Bao talked. At the 9th National Sports Festival - 2022, swimming will be held in Hanoi. The parents of this swimmer did not hesitate to travel far from their hometown to Hanoi, to the swimming pool in My Dinh to cheer for their son. In all the contents of Thanh Bao's competition, Mr. Pham Thanh Hai (Thanh Bao's father) and Ms. Nguyen Thi Thanh Thuy (Thanh Bao's mother) were present to cheer and encourage their son.
When I come back from a long time of training and competition, my biggest wish is to have a family meal. My parents encouraged me to make efforts and I have decided to focus on my career as an athlete, Pham Thanh Bao confided.
What the male player likes most after each time he returns home after finishing the training program is to become a boy playing with relatives, not a swimmer holding many national records. The player said that anywhere, he only believes in being a professional athlete and not a record holder that the media affectionately calls.
Always assert yourself at the SEA Games
Pham Thanh Bao was introduced at the 30th SEA Games arena in the Philippines. Vice President and General Secretary of the Vietnam Water Sports Association - Mr. Dinh Viet Hung once discussed: "At that time, we prepared for Thanh Bao to create a surprise for the opponents. In fact, the athlete with the Silver Medal is very encouraging.
On the green race in the Philippines in 2019, Pham Thanh Bao won two Gold Medals (men's 100m frog event, men's 200m frog event). The results mark that after 10 years, the Vietnamese Swimming Team has had an athlete win a medal at the SEA Games in the men's freestyle swimming event (the most recent time was at the 25th SEA Games in Laos, Nguyen Huu Viet).
Thanh Bao added: Preparing for the 31st SEA Games in Vietnam is a very stressful process due to the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic. But we are focused on the requirement of ensuring achievements. Before attending the Congress, I only dared to think that I was trying to protect the Silver Medal I was holding. Coming in, I swam at my full speed and won the Gold Medal. At that time, it was a huge feeling.
At the swimming pool at My Dinh National Sports Complex of SEA Games 31 (May 2022), Pham Thanh Bao personally won two Gold Medals (50m frog, 100m frog) and a Silver Medal (200m frog).
Vietnamese professionals and high-performance sports managers remember that the audience at the swimming pool was stirred up with many applauseful applause for Pham Thanh Bao. At that time, we believed that Vietnamese swimming had found a worthy successor to Nguyen Huu Viet in the events of male frog swimming, Mr. Dinh Viet Hung talked about.
The 32nd SEA Games held in Cambodia is a competition with the mark of Pham Thanh Bao. The male swimmer won his first Gold Medal when competing in the SEA Games outside of Vietnam. In Cambodia, Pham Thanh Bao excellently won two Gold Medals (100m male frog, 200m male frog) and the professional index was recognized as a SEA Games record, a national record.
This year, we have developed a plan to prepare for the 33rd SEA Games in Thailand. Pham Thanh Bao is one of the important faces. However, the players who are practicing need to be in the best condition to maintain the professional index to ensure the set medal achievement, revealed coach Nguyen Hoang Vu (Vietnam Swimming Team).
