Lê Thanh Tùng
Vietnamese artistic gymnast (born 1995)
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Lê Thanh Tùng (born 24 October 1995)[1] is a Vietnamese artistic gymnast. He is the 2017 Asian vault champion and the 2019 Asian horizontal bar bronze medalist. He is a seven-time SEA Games champion. He represented Vietnam at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
Vietnam
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| Born | 24 October 1995 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 165 cm (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Head coach | Truong Minh Sang | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Gymnastics career
Tùng began gymnastics at the age of five because his brother was also a gymnast. He moved to China at the age of eight to improve his training but returned home eight years later due to homesickness.[2][3]
Tùng competed at the 2014 Asian Games and helped the Vietnamese team finish fifth,[4] and he advanced into the all-around final, finishing eighth.[5] He finished 83rd in the all-around qualifications at the 2014 World Championships.[6] At the 2015 SEA Games, Tùng contributed to Vietnam's team gold medal.[7] Individually, he won a gold medal in the vault final and a bronze medal in the pommel horse final.[8][9]
Tùng won a gold medal on the vault at the 2017 Doha World Cup.[10] He then won a vault gold medal at the 2017 Asian Championships.[11] Then at the 2017 SEA Games, he helped Vietnam defend the team title by nearly 14 points.[12] In the event finals, he won gold medals on the vault and horizontal bar.[13]
Tùng competed at the 2018 Asian Games held in Jakarta, Indonesia, and helped Vietname finish fifth in the team event. He placed eighth in the all-around, fifth in the floor exercise final, and sixth in the vault final.[1] At the 2018 Szombathely World Challenge Cup, he won a silver medal on the vault.[14] He won the bronze medal on the horizontal bar at the 2019 Asian Championships despite competing with an injured ankle.[2][15]
Tùng advanced to the vault final at the 2019 World Championships and placed fifth. As a result, he earned a berth to the 2020 Summer Olympics.[3][16] He then competed at the 2019 SEA Games and won the all-around bronze medal behind Carlos Yulo and Đinh Phương Thành. He won two more bronze medals in the vault and parallel bars finals.[17]
At the 2021 SEA Games, Tùng helped Vietnam win the team title, and he won the all-around silver medal behind Yulo.[18] He then won bronze medals in the rings, parallel bars, and horizontal bar final.[19] Due to an ankle injury, he only competed on the vault and the horizontal bar at the 2020 Summer Olympics, and he did not advance into either final.[2][20] At the 2023 SEA Games, Tùng helped Vietnam defend its team title, and he won another all-around silver medal, once again behind Yulo.[21]
