On July 27, 2007 on the competition field of the 2007 Asian Athletics Championships in Amman city (Jordan), the coaching staff of the Vietnamese athletics team burst into unexpected joy when witnessing the silver medal result in the women's 100m event of runner Vu Thi Huong.
Now, television and internet media are developing, so updating the competition results is fast and clear. At that time, the internet was not developed and the competition results had to wait for the printed board from the Organizing Committee.
Therefore, it was not until the Vietnamese athletics team returned home that all the press clearly grasped Vu Thi Huong's specific achievements at the 2007 Asian Athletics Championships. She achieved a result of 11 seconds 33 to win a gold medal in the women's 100m. The achievement was also recognized as a national record for women's 100m and exists to this day.
From that moment on, Vu Thi Huong became more known. However, Asian athletics experts began to pay attention to Vietnamese athletics because they did not see achievements as an accidental luck.
Vu Thi Huong has been assessed as one of the athletes with special qualities. Almost, she did not lose in the 100m and 200m races during her peak performance.
The silver medal in the women's 100m at the 2007 Asian Athletics Championships was likened by Asian media to Vu Thi Huong's spectacular debut.
Two years after the above tournament, at the 2009 Asian Athletics Championships held in Guangzhou (China), Vu Thi Huong continued to win a double silver medal (in the 100m, 200m events).
Since then, the Vietnamese athletics team has always been noticed in many important tournaments in the continent because it possesses one of the female athletes with the best speed.
Coach Nguyen Dinh Minh (who had a period of directly coaching Vu Thi Huong at the Vietnamese Athletics Team) once analyzed that: "Athletic Vu Thi Huong has an admirable speed strength, and so far not many faces of Vietnamese women's athletics have possessed that strength".
Of course, qualities are a part, training is the important decision for Vu Thi Huong to improve her expertise and reach the peak of achievement.
At the 2010 ASIAD held in Guangzhou (China), she personally won 1 bronze medal in the women's 100m and 1 silver medal in the women's 200m. The results marked the first time that Vietnamese athletics had an athlete win a short-distance medal in athletics at the Asian Games.
Everyone understands very well that in athletics, the 100m and 200m events are still recognized as the most attractive and noticed competition events.
In 2015, Vu Thi Huong left the track, retiring from a glorious career with Vietnamese athletics. In addition to gold medals at national championships, specifically in the SEA Games arena, Vu Thi Huong personally holds a record that no Vietnamese female athlete has ever achieved, which is 3 times winning a double gold medal in the short distance (100m, 200m events). She won results in the SEA Games in 2007, 2009 and 2013 respectively.
Until now, when mentioning the records and achievements in the women's speed event of women's athletics, many fans and experts still use the image of Vu Thi Huong to compare with young athletes. In 80 years of development of the country's sports, the female athlete has contributed achievements to create historical value and has always been noticed.
