As originally expected, the coach of the Vietnam Shooting Team Hoang Xuan Vinh will be the one who lit the SEA Games 31 in the opening ceremony on the evening of 12/5 at My Dinh National Stadium (Hanoi). However, the plan then changed.

According to the new information from the 31st SEA Games Organizing Committee, the athlete Quach Thi Lan will replace the coach Hoang Xuan Vinh. Quach Thi Lan is one of the typical athletes of athletics in particular and Vietnamese sports in general.
The girl born in 1995 in Muong Ngoc Lac has brought many medals in big tournaments, contributing significant achievements in the golden table of the achievement of Vietnamese sports. The outstanding achievements of Lan can be mentioned as the 400m gold medal in the Asian sports festival 2018, 400m gold medal in Asia 2017, repeatedly winning gold medals at the Grand Prix Asia Athletics Athletes …
In particular, in 2021, Quach Thi Lan became the only name of Vietnamese athletics to attend the Tokyo Olympic Games. Lan is also the first athlete in the running content of the Vietnamese sports delegation to participate in the semi -finals of the Olympics.

Also according to the plan, during the opening ceremony of the 31st SEA Games, athlete Nguyen Huy Hoang (Vietnam swimming) representatives of athletes read the oath. On behalf of the arbitrators, the volleyball referee Nguyen Thi Ngoc Hoa. Meanwhile, the swordplay of Vu Thanh An took the responsibility of holding the flag for the Vietnamese sports delegation when marching at My Dinh Stadium on the evening of 12/5.