The plan to recruit Vietnamese athletes officially attended the 31st SEA Games in athletics took place on March 4 and March 5, 2022 at My Dinh Stadium. On March 6, 2022 at VPBank Hanoi Marathon, Vietnam Athletics Federation will use the results of this tournament to get 4 more athletes attending the Southeast Asian Games.
Thus, this will be a great movement tournament with Tien Phong marathon chosen by the Athletics Federation to recruit athletes to the list of national teams. Currently, some contents are sufficient athletes to attend the 31 SEA Games as prescribed. However, there are still content with more than 2 athletes who are competitive, so through the tournament such as VPBank Hanoi Marathon to get a highly achievement athletes.

The athletes who are concentrating the National Athletics team such as Pham Thi Hong Le, Hoang Thi Ngoc Hoa, Trinh Quoc Luong, Hoang Nguyen Thanh and Le Van Tuan have good achievements in tournaments such as the National Athletics Championship or Tien Phong Marathon.
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Besides, many athletes also have a achievement not inferior to the players, so through the movement tournament such as VPBank Hanoi Marathon to select more athletes to serve the national task is important at the time before the Congress.

The 31st Southeast Asian Games has 200 more athletes who run in the marathon, so the Tien Phong Marathon Tournament 2021 and VPBank Hanoi Marathon 2022 are used achievements to get athletes attending the 31st SEA Games.
Athletics at SEA Games 31 has 47 contents included in the competition program of the Congress. The time limit for the host country to send the list of athletes to the Organizing Committee is March 12, 2022, so the VPBank Hanoi Marathon tournament is considered the last tournament to complete the list of athletes participating in the Congress.