Nguyen Thi Oanh attended the 2023 World Athletics Prize according to the special capacity from the World Athletics Federation (IAAF) for the country without a standard athletes as prescribed.
Nguyen Thi Oanh will play in the familiar content of 1,500m. Competition in the world arena is a great honor for Nguyen Thi Oanh, the current champion of the SEA Games.
Although knowing the opportunity to create surprises is very small because the world playground is still too much for Vietnamese athletes, but for Nguyen Thi Oanh, this year's championship is a valuable opportunity for her to learn.
Oanh will have the opportunity to compete with the legendary athletics Faith Kipyegon, who holds the No. 1 position in the world with a distance of 1,500m. She is even a record in this content. Faith Kipyigon became the first woman in the world to run 1,500m under 3 minutes 50 seconds when coming home after only 3 minutes 49 seconds 23 at the Florence Diamond League in June 2023.
At that time, Kipyegon crushed the 3 -minute 50 -minute 07 record of Ethiopian people – Genzebe Dibaba. Kipyigon is the first foot to hold the world record at the same time the content of 1,500m and 5,000m. So it was not surprising that she was the heaviest candidate for this year's championship.
Nguyen Thi Oanh will start competing with the world's leading pins in the 1,500m qualifying round at 18:15 on August 19 (Vietnam time), which is also the opening day of the World Championship 2023.
