Honored to participate in the parade and march
These days, members of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Culture and Sports parade Delegation are actively practicing with determination and honor when participating in the parade and parade event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification.
Lam Quang Nhat has been chosen as one of the members in the sports field to participate in the training to attend the above important event. Sharing after the evening of participating in the second rehearsal session (April 22), Lam Quang Nhat said that this was the first time he had participated in such a major parade and parade program, so he was very excited and proud.
Ho Chi Minh City Sports has carefully considered and selected the list of the most outstanding and outstanding coaches and athletes through many periods of training to prepare for the parade and parade event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification.
In many aspects, Lam Quang Nhat deserves to be one of the typical talents of the city's sports named after Uncle Ho. And in the training sessions to prepare for the event, this player always participates most fully.
Up to now, Lam Quang Nhat has never counted how many medals he has won for Ho Chi Minh City Sports and Vietnamese sports through competing in many tournaments at all levels. Above all, Lam Quang Nhat requires himself to focus on determining the goal of striving for the highest results in any work, especially training and competing in sports.
Lam Quang Nhat's starting point was swimming. Now, Lam Quang Nhat is a professional athlete in 3 modern combined sports (triathlon). In both sports that this player has been pursuing (including swimming and triathlon), Lam Quang Nhat has held the number one position in the country.
When he was still playing swimming, Lam Quang Nhat won Gold Medals many times in competitions at the National Championship. Lam Quang Nhat won a Gold Medal at the 2014 and 2018 National Sports Festival in swimming. When switching to practicing and competing in professional triathlon, Lam Quang Nhat continued to reap results.
The Ho Chi Minh City man affirmed his ability to break through and win a Gold Medal at the 2022 National Sports Festival. Individually, Lam Quang Nhat won the National Triathlon Championship in 2023, 2024, 2025.
Determined to achieve good results in all circumstances
Lam Quang Nhat won the first SEA Games Gold Medal in his athlete career as a Vietnamese swimmer competing in 2013 in Myanmar. Recalling that result, Lam Quang Nhat once expressed: "I didn't think I would win the No. 1 position at that time, but when I was in the water and competing, I kept a very comfortable mood.
I still remember the Malaysian opponents who were rated higher but they were left behind and I had a very memorable victory in the 1,500m freestyle event. At that time, I was only 16 years old.
The 27 2013 SEA Games is the first Southeast Asian Games in which Lam Quang Nhat has participated.
The Vietnamese sports manager once compared Lam Quang Nhat's Gold Medal in the 1,500m freestyle distance to... the earthquake at the 27th SEA Games in 2013. During the above period, Vietnamese male swimmers always lost to regional opponents when competing in the SEA Games, so anyone who wins a Gold Medal is a miracle.
Talking about that gold medal results, Vietnamese reporters who worked on the pool at the SEA Games 27-2013 also reminded a lot in later conversations. Before Lam Quang Nhat went into the water to compete, not many forecasted that the Vietnamese swimming team will win the distance of 1,500m freely. But Lam Quang Nhat made a big surprise, winning a gold medal. Immediately, Vietnamese reporters from many places flocked to the central swimming pool of the congress to record the sharing from this very new fisherman.
At the 28-2015 SEA Games held in Singapore, Lam Quang Nhat successfully defended the Gold Medal in the men's 1,500m freestyle event. At the 29 2017 SEA Games, Lam Quang Nhat won the Silver Medal in the men's 1,500m freestyle distance when losing to junior Nguyen Huy Hoang.
Vietnamese swimmers understand that this is the time when we start to make a transition and Nguyen Huy Hoang will be the one to follow Lam Quang Nhat in the long distances to achieve more Gold Medals at the SEA Games arena.
Through many conversations with the media, Lam Quang Nhat once confided that he personally never regrets stopping his peak swimming career to switch to triathlon. "There are times when I have to think a lot about my choice and decision. I received encouragement from relatives and friends to change. I chose the path of triathlon for myself, Lam Quang Nhat expressed.
The turning point in Lam Quang Nhat's career was the announcement of stopping swimming after the 2018 National Sports Festival. Fans feel sorry for the Vietnamese swimming community when Lam Quang Nhat retired from top-level sports despite his young age.
I was under a lot of pressure to practice continuously and had to compete for results in swimming. I stopped to focus on going to university, Lam Quang Nhat shared the above stage when announcing the decision to stop competing. However, the sports blood in Lam Quang Nhat has never stopped flowing. In 2019, this young man was invited to participate by the Running Swimming Association (specializing in 3 modern combined sports - triathlon). Lam Quang Nhat's interest in learning and practicing professional triathlon started from here.
Lam Quang Nhat has entered the age of 28, an age that still has a lot of energy for athletes. After more than 5 years of practicing and competing in triathlon, Lam Quang Nhat said that he has returned to himself. From a boy with a scholarly face, Lam Quang Nhat is now a male triathlon player with the strongest strength in all races.
Of course, every start is never easy. In particular, triathlon is a sport... rich people and athletes practicing and competing in this sport need financial resources to ensure standard competition equipment and appropriate nutrition.
Lam Quang Nhat has made great efforts to achieve that. If you compete in swimming, you have a will to win the distance. Coming to triathlon, you must have 3 wills of determination to be united in one because you have to make efforts from swimming, cycling to running to achieve the final result, said Lam Quang Nhat.
Sports are health. Lam Quang Nhat maintains that concept. After leaving the green race, Lam Quang Nhat once had problems with bone and joint pain. After spending time in the early stages of practicing triathlon, Lam Quang Nhat gradually got used to the intensity of this sport. The exercise program provided by experts helps Lam Quang Nhat improve endurance and overcome previous bone and joint pain.
Now, Lam Quang Nhat has returned as a National Athlete and participated in the 3 most recent Southeast Asian Sports Festivals including: SEA Games 30-2019, SEA Games 31-2021, SEA Games 32-2023. The triathlon competition medal has not yet come to Lam Quang Nhat.
However, Lam Quang Nhat maintained his determination to conquer the triathlon medal in this arena and is waiting for an opportunity at the 33-2025 SEA Games. I have been accumulating a lot of experience and physical strength with triathlon. I am waiting for a good result for myself in Thailand at the end of this year, the player shared.
