In 2018, Lam Tuc Ngan overcame many experienced seniors to become the best Vietnamese female athletes Techcombank Ironman 70.3 Vietnam. Her achievement after completing the swimming 1.9km cycling 90km jogging 21km is 6 hours 16 minutes 04 seconds, ranking the first group of 18-24 women.
Due to the influence of Covid-19 translation, the tournament in the Philippines had to postpone up to this point. On March 6 (after nearly 2 years of delayed) Ngan Ngan attended Ironman Philippines 140.6 – Full Ironman prize with 3.8 km of swimming, 180 km pedal, 42.2 km running. Although the content she registered was no longer competitive because some athletes gave up and some had moved to another age group.
After more than 4 years, the girl has become the first Vietnamese athlete to attend the Ironman World Championship because of its outstanding achievements in the tournament in the series of tournaments taking the world tournament. The contest in Subic Bay, Philippines is one of the tournaments in the series of achievements.
Ironman World Championship has a 40 -year history, with more than 100,000 athletes around the world to compete for tickets each year, only about 5% of the excellent athletes are selected from full Ironman in the standard series. Each prize, depending on the size, will determine from 20 to 45 to Ironman World Championship. The Organizing Committee is divided into age, each age has one to two capacity depending on the number of athletes departing.
Because of the difficulty to win the official ticket to attend the tournament, Ngan can become a phenomenon of Vietnamese sports and specifically the new sport Triathlon is being introduced and developed in the S -shaped strip of land.
Previously, Tuc Ngan once shared, “I want to inspire young people, the benefits that this sport brings. Age is a barrier for young people because usually the athletes reach the peak of Triathlon at the age group over 30”. At the age of 28, the Saigon girl has done something that no one in Vietnam can do.
Playing full Ironman requires physical foundation, endurance and endurance. Tuc Ngan's training lesson plan must strictly follow the competition for half a year. Although prepared quite carefully, at the race of the Philippine Philippines 140.6 an unfortunate incident affected the girl. Due to the swimming athlete in front of the eye, the swimming competition was finished to the cycling, the right eye was faded.
However, in order not to be DNF, she could still try to overcome and run to the finish line safely to achieve the goal of winning tickets to the Ironman World Championship. Tuc Ngan has completed the 226km long race in nearly 15 hours 24 minutes. She is the female athlete with the shortest time of completing and winning the first class of 25-29. With this achievement, Tuc Ngan is eligible to participate in this year's Ironman World Championship in Hawaii, USA. This is the first time a semi -Vietnamese Triathlon athlete has participated in the world's harshest tournament of the “iron people”.
Taking a look at some achievements of Lam Tuc Ngan
– Age group champion, top 8 female final Philippines 2022
– Ironman 70.3 Philippines championship 2019
– Ironman 70.3 2018 championship
– Best Vietnam Ironman 70.3 2018
