Phan Thị Hà Thanh
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Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Level | International Senior Elite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Head coach(es) | Nguyen Thi Thanh Thuy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | December 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Phan Thị Hà Thanh (born 16 October 1991) is a retired Vietnamese artistic gymnast from Haiphong and a two-time Olympian (2012 and 2016). She is currently the most decorated and successful gymnast from Vietnam on the international stage. She became the first gymnast to win a world medal for Vietnam, capturing the bronze on vault at the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.[1]
Gymnastics career
2009–2012
Phan made her international debut at the 2009 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in London. She competed in the qualifications round but did not score high enough to make any finals.[2]
On 16 November 2010, she competed at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou and finished fifth on the vault.[3] She won silver medals on vault and balance beam at the 2010 World Cup in Porto, Portugal.[2][4]
In 2011, Phan won the bronze medal on vault at the
In 2012, Phan competed at the London Olympic Games. She placed 12th on vault, third reserve for the vault final[7][circular reference].
2013–2016
At the
Phan began 2014 by winning a World Cup title on the balance beam in
In the spring of 2015, she won the balance beam titles at two World Cup events (Doha and
Phan finished 41st in the all-around competition at the
At the 2016 Olympic Games, Phan competed on two events in the qualification round: vault and balance beam. For her first vault, she performed a double-twisting
Retirement
Following the 2016 Olympic Games, Phan continued to be plagued with a number of injuries which had forced her to reduce difficulty on power events, vault and floor exercise in particular, over the previous two years. She decided to officially retire at the end of 2016 and focus on coaching and developing the women's gymnastics program in Vietnam with her former coach and national team coach, Nguyen Thi Thanh Thuy.
References
- ^ "Gymnast Wins Vietnam's First World Medal in Gymnastics". Veryvietnam.com. Archived from the original on 8 August 2012. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
- ^ a b "41st Artistic Gymnastics World Championships 2009 Artistic Gymnastics Women All-Around Final". Gymnasticsresults.com. Archived from the original on 24 May 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
- ^ Colomer, Albert Minguillon I. (16 November 2010). "More gold for China in Asian Games Event Finals". The-all-around.com. Archived from the original on 10 February 2015. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ^ "Gymnastics - Phan Thi Ha Thanh". The-sports.org. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ^ "43rd ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
- Espn.go.com. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
- ^ Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's vault
- ^ Turner, Amanda (28 March 2013). "Five Take Titles at Doha World Challenge Cup". International Gymnast Magazine. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
- ^ Etchells, Daniel (7 June 2015). "Vietnam claim artistic gymnastics double at Southeast Asian Games". InsideTheGames.biz. Archived from the original on 26 July 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
- ^ "28th Southeast Asian Games Singapore (SIN) 2015 June 5-16". Archived from the original on 2016-05-20. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
- ^ "46th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Glasgow (GBR) 2015 Oct 23 - Nov 1". Archived from the original on 2016-06-05. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
- ^ "Second Olympic Qualification Test Event Rio De Janeiro". gymnasticsresults.com.
- ^ "World Challenge Cup 2016 Varna". gymnasticsresults.com.
External links
- Phan Thi Ha Thanh at the International Gymnastics Federation
- Phan Thi Ha Thanh at Olympedia