Persistence to achieve success
The 2025 National Triathlon Championship just ended in Tam Chuc (Ha Nam) on April 14. In this year's tournament, Nguyen Thi Kim Cuong continued to compete in two major events including triathlon (swimming, cycling, running), aquathlon (swimming, running) individual and she won the absolute Gold Medal.
In Tam Chuc (Ha Nam), Vietnamese athletes added the motivation to play by the Organizing Committee to expand the subject with international athletes to attend the contents of the World Triathlon 2025 (playing with the road with Vietnamese athletes). At the end of the battle to calculate the World Triathlon 2025 achievement, Nguyen Thi Kim Cuong also won two silver medals (personal triathlon, Aquathlon for women).
Smile after winning two gold medals and two silver medals, Nguyen Thi Diamond expressed: “The national championship has always had the highest professional value. I prepared very carefully over the past time to enter the competition. Every day, I have to accumulate my strength for myself to achieve the best endurance and the regime of training, eating and exercises must be scientific. Competition will be more fierce. ”
Nguyen Thi Kim Cuong is a key factor that the People's Public Security Sports has invested heavily in, aiming to achieve the highest results in the group of events of the 3 modern coordinated sports. Kim Cuong once said that she is a "one-sided" person with triathlon. This is partly due to Nguyen Thi Kim Cuong's strengths and started of swimming.
After that, she switched to practicing and competing in school cycling. This young female curler up started to join the Can Tho Cycling Team in 2015. Can Tho cycling professionals are impressed with this little girl with a height of less than 1m60, which is her endurance. The Giants can practice on the school bus for tens of kilometers without ever having to work hard. However, when Kim Cuong switched to specialized practice to compete in groups of 3 modern sports, she began to achieve more results.
I see that triathlon has a combination of cycling, running, swimming to require the most comprehensive practitioners and athletes. I have considered a lot to switch to this subject. However, after practicing triathlon, I found it suitable and still did not give up cycling because it was a part of the group to coordinate the competition, Kim Cuong shared.
In 2023, the Golden Eagle won the National Triathlon individual women's individual championship in Can Tho. In 2024 and 2025, Kim Cuong won a double Gold Medal ( triathlon, aquathlon) at the National Championship as a player of the People's Public Security unit.
sad memories are an experience for yourself
This year, Nguyen Thi Kim Cuong is 25 years old. She is the number one female athlete in Vietnam in individual triathlon and aquathlon competitions, but Kim Cuong still lacks competition results at the SEA Games. She is aiming to touch the medal at the 33rd SEA Games arena.
Two years ago, Nguyen Thi Kim Cuong participated in the 32nd SEA Games (May 2023) in Cambodia for the first time as a player of the Vietnam Triathlon Team. The unfortunate thing for Kim Cuong was that she suffered a fractured bone injury during practice. However, the female player is still determined to compete in the 32nd SEA Games.
However, injuries cannot please people. Kim Cuong is only healthy enough to complete the swimming and cycling competitions. When it came to running, due to too much pain, Kim Cuong agreed to stop to ensure her safety.
That was a memorable memory for me. After two years, I now have more confidence in myself, but above all, I have been accumulating expertise to improve and the goal I set is to conquer the 33-2025 SEA Games if I have the opportunity to participate. This year's 33rd SEA Games in Thailand is expected to have fierce competition, I will learn about the competition program and will wait for my opportunity," Kim Cuong shared.
In fact, diamonds won a medal at the SEA Games. The achievement she achieved was the result with the Vietnam School Bicycle Team. The 31st SEA Games held in Vietnam, Diamond was given the opportunity to play official competition in the content of the female team of the road bicycle.
Competing with her seniors Nguyen Thi That and teammates Bui Thi Quynh and Nguyen Thi Thu Mai, Nguyen Thi Kim Cuong won the Gold Medal for the Women's School Cycling Team. competing in the SEA Games and winning a Gold Medal at home for the first time, Kim Cuong shared that it was the most memorable memory of her career.
I still remember the moment we won the championship and won the Gold Medal. vo cung many emotions. I always cherish that result and the Gold Medal is the overall result of the whole team, Kim Cuong expressed.
Now, Nguyen Thi Kim Cuong has appeared many times in the press, but as she said, she always tries to focus on professional competition, not to be distracted and a triathlon person is never allowed to rest.
Small "lunarless" person
People in the profession always have fun to call athletes who practice and compete in triathlon (swimming, cycling, jogging), duathlon (running, cycling, jogging) and aquathlon (swimming, jogging) "steel people" or "loverless people". Because they always strive for more than 200% of their ability compared to athletes in each individual event to complete the content coordination when competing. However, Nguyen Thi Kim Cuong smiled and said that she is not a "long-oi" person but everything comes from accumulation and passion for sports. With a height of only 1m55 and a weight of less than 50kg, the Golden Eagle has incredible endurance.
Triathlon Vietnam Team Coaches once shared that, when practicing, Triathlon's athletes were measured from the equipment installed on the car or the wristwatch of the athletes. The index of the diamond is always stable and it is difficult for the athlete to achieve like her. Therefore, for 3 consecutive years (2023, 2024, 2025), Diamonds all won the national championship when competing in Triathlon content.
Competition is the accumulation. In addition to national tournaments, Nguyen Thi Kim Cuong is also a familiar face at many international tournaments with fierce competition in 3 modern combined sports such as: Ironman 70.3, Ultra Aquarios War... She shared: I am not a special person compared to anyone. I am an athlete like many other athletes. To become a professional athlete, I practiced sports and accumulated over time.
When I was young, I was swimming and at my younger age, I practiced my bicycle and now I joined the combination of jogging. I always set myself a target to conquer the results of each tournament and I have the motivation to make an effort to play. In my concept, I am not allowed to back down because I have participated in 3 modern sports that the athletes must become the most powerful person. ”
