Meaningful double title
Trinh Thu Vinh ended 2024 with a meaningful result by leading the Outstanding Athlete category in the "National Outstanding Coach and Athlete 2024" election. The female shooter of the Vietnam Shooting Team ranked No. 1 in the list of 10 Outstanding Athletes of Vietnamese sports!
Continuing her success, Trinh Thu Vinh was nominated for the "Best Female Athlete of the Year" category at the "Victory Cup 2024" award of Vietnamese sports. If nothing changes, the votes will put Trinh Thu Vinh in the number 1 position in the above category. Because all competitors with Trinh Thu Vinh in the "Best Female Athlete of the Year" category did not show outstanding prominence.
Currently, in the field of sports in Vietnam, the "National Outstanding Coach and Athlete" election and the "Victory Cup Award" are the two most prestigious professional elections for high-performance sports. The Gala to announce the "Victory Cup 2024" award of Vietnam Sports was held on January 10.
At the age of 24, Trinh Thu Vinh made a significant mark for herself with the two noble titles mentioned above. She became the first shooter of the People's Public Security sports to be honored to receive the above two titles in the same year of training and professional competition.
“Trinh Thu Vinh is becoming more mature. After the 2024 Paris Olympics (France), Thu Vinh continues to practice and participate in more tournaments to develop more positively in her expertise. We see that she is very focused in her training and sets high goals for herself in 2025 and 2026,” coach Tran Quoc Cuong commented on her student.
Trinh Thu Vinh shared very modestly: “I am honored and happy to receive the title of "National Outstanding Athlete 2024". It is truly a meaningful result and I have been waiting for it since I started practicing sports. At this time, the title helps me to be more confident in practicing professionally and is the motivation for me to achieve high results to be worthy of the title I have”.
Determined to attend SEA Games 33
Trinh Thu Vinh was in the Top 4 in the 10m air pistol event at the 2024 Paris Olympics (France). However, few people know that the famous female shooter of Vietnamese shooting has never won a Gold Medal at the Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games).
Trinh Thu Vinh has only participated in the SEA Games once, which was the 31st SEA Games (May 2022) held in Vietnam. At that time, Thu Vinh won her first medal on the shooting range, winning 1 Silver Medal (10m women's air pistol team) and 1 Bronze Medal (10m women's air pistol individual). At the 32nd SEA Games (May 2023), the host Cambodia did not organize a shooting event. Therefore, Trinh Thu Vinh and her teammates will have the opportunity to return to the SEA Games arena, which is the 33rd SEA Games held in Thailand this year.
Nearly 3 years after winning her first medal at the SEA Games, Trinh Thu Vinh has now changed more positively, and the female shooter is considered to be strong in her expertise. Thu Vinh always says that she finds a way to help herself have a psychological balance when practicing and competing every time she stands in front of the shooting platform. Because, keeping a stable mentality will prevent the shooter's shooting path from causing the bullet to miss the bull's eye.
“I am determined to win a place at the 33rd SEA Games in Thailand this year and I set myself the goal of achieving the best results,” Trinh Thu Vinh said. At the 2024 National Shooting Championship, Trinh Thu Vinh competed with the most thorough preparation. She determined that like many other athletes, she must achieve medal results to affirm her own abilities. Standing on the shooting platform, all shooters have equal opportunities and the coaching staff of the Vietnam Shooting Team chooses the one with the highest results to continue to focus on the National Team.
The Vietnamese shooting team will return to intensive training from the beginning of 2025. Trinh Thu Vinh will continue to be a member of the Vietnamese shooting team this year. She said that there are 11 months left to prepare for the 33rd SEA Games. Therefore, Trinh Thu Vinh and the Vietnamese shooting team will try their best not to disappoint the coaches and themselves.
Professional development
In 2025, the new professional training cycle of the women's air pistol team of the Vietnam Shooting Team officially began. Expert Park Chung-gun will no longer participate in the training. Instead, the Vietnam Shooting Team will hire a female expert from Mongolia to accompany the shooters.
“My teammates and I in the content team started training with experts. We were trained to actively improve our skills,” Trinh Thu Vinh said. For those in the profession, each expert has a different training method, but in general, they all focus on the professional center, which is the athlete. A capable and talented athlete will show the results of training in the score on the target.
Head of High Performance Sports Department 1 (Department of Physical Training and Sports) - Mr. Hoang Quoc Vinh reported at the conference to summarize the work of 2024 and deploy the work of 2025 of the sports industry that shooting is still one of the key sports that Vietnamese sports are determined to invest in, aiming to achieve high results in the international arena. Each shooter like Trinh Thu Vinh is a key person and an important asset of the country, so they should be best guaranteed to achieve high expertise.
After 1 year, having gone through major competitions such as ASIAD 19 and Olympics Paris (France) 2024, when asked Trinh Thu Vinh if there were many changes? She just smiled and said that her personality and lifestyle had not changed, but her expertise had clearly changed and she was more confident.
The shooting event of the 33rd SEA Games in Thailand this year will include shooting and flying disc shooting. For shooting, 6 men's events, 8 women's events and 2 mixed events for men and women will be officially competed. The coaching board of the Vietnamese shooting team said that Trinh Thu Vinh's familiar event group includes: 10m air pistol, 25m sport pistol and 10m mixed air pistol for men and women are included in the competition program. Preliminarily, Trinh Thu Vinh can register to participate in these 3 important events.
In February 2025, Trinh Thu Vinh and the Vietnamese Shooting Team will go to Thailand to compete in the 2025 Asian Shooting Cup. The shooting range hosting this tournament is where the shooting event of the 33rd SEA Games will be held. As the coaching staff shared, this is an effective test to help Vietnamese shooters grasp the facilities of the 33rd SEA Games shooting competition. "I am very focused on professional preparation, so in 2025, I hope to get better results and achieve the results as in training, bringing glory to the Fatherland," Trinh Thu Vinh said.
