Nguyen Thi Oanh: Made a miracle at SEA Games, got a master's degree, had a difficult family, received a salary of 7 million/month

As the youngest child in a family of 8 children, Oanh feels that she has a responsibility to help her parents. The little girl of Vietnamese sports has to struggle to make a living while working hard to maintain her form.

Little known private life

Nguyen Thi Oanh is from Bac Giang, a famous land that produces many key players in athletics, badminton, and shuttlecock. When she was a student, she, like many of her peers, spent most of her time studying and helping her parents with housework.

The turning point that turned Oanh's life in another direction came quite early, at the age of 9. The first time she witnessed a true track and field competition, the elementary school student immediately fixed her eyes on her sister's steps on the track. "I didn't have any special hobbies. But the cheers and admiring eyes of everyone for her made me wish. I think one day I can also be like that", Oanh recalls.

Since then, in her hometown of My Ha, Lang Giang district, in the afternoon sun on the hills, Oanh still goes to school every day. But the 4th grader at this time had prepared herself in a state of mind - to become a track and field champion.

Teachers at the school facilitated Oanh to participate in district and provincial athletics tournaments and won the first medals in her life. She quickly revealed the qualities of a promising athlete. Oanh is faster and stronger than opponents of the same age, despite losing in appearance.

There, Oanh caught the eye of the scouts of the Bac Giang sports delegation. However, her rather modest height, only about 1m50 and weighing less than 40kg, almost made her not selected.

At the age of 15, Nguyen Thi Oanh packed her bags and went to Bac Giang Sports Gifted School to pursue the path of becoming a professional athlete. Talking about this period, athlete Nguyen Thi Oanh admitted that she had a rather impulsive moment: "There is a special thing that I only share now that I have been going to the unit gifted school in Bac Giang for a week because I miss my home. I cried for hours to ask to go home. When my parents went down to pick me up, sat down to talk to the coach, I changed my mind to stay. Now thinking back, I feel sorry for hurting my parents. It was raining in the middle of the night. Due to strong winds, my parents had to go from home by motorbike to school. I studied for more than 20km with my desire to pick them up, but to sit for a while, they had to go back. myself with constant worries."

The idea that success from here will spread, suddenly at the end of 2014, Oanh had serious health problems. After the 3,000m silver medal in overcoming obstacles won in Myanmar, Oanh "disappeared" from the athletics village for a long time.

"It was a day at the end of December 2014, I found my face suddenly had a lot of swelling. People say it's just allergies, but I feel insecure, I know my body well, so I should go to the doctor and see the doctor. diagnosed with glomerulonephritis", Oanh smiled lightly when recalling that period. For athletes, heart and kidney diseases are always an obsession, possibly the end of a career.

"My first thought was to retire. It was hard to accept. But then after a while of monitoring, I learned that my disease was just in the early stages, there was still a chance to cure it," Oanh said.

She was forced to give up all the awards for a long time after that to focus on treatment.

However, after 6 months of treatment, Oanh returned to practice. She herself could not have imagined that 9 years after the illness, she had become a monument of athletics in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.

Making a miracle at SEA Games 32

On the afternoon of May 9, Nguyen Thi Oanh made a miracle in the SEA Games arena. Although there are many gold medals and records in the past, this time is an unbelievable breakthrough of the beauty of Bac Giang.

Saying it is a miracle is because the two content of 1,500m and 3,000m overcoming obstacles of Vietnamese athletes are only 20 minutes apart. With such a short break, Nguyen Thi Oanh did not even have time to celebrate the gold medal after finishing in the first content of 1,500m.

But then the athlete born in 1995 still completed her goal of winning 2 gold medals, thereby successfully defending 3 gold medals at the 32nd SEA Games. She did an extraordinary thing, breaking human limits.

"I personally feel pressured and difficult when entering the second event today. So I temporarily do not share or celebrate when I have completed the 1,500m event. And when I finish in the 3000m content. Overcoming obstacles, I looked up at the stands and got everyone's cheers.

I'm really touched. I thank all of you for your constant encouragement and support. That will be a great motivation for me to try harder," Nguyen Thi Oanh shared after making history.

The reward for Nguyen Thi Oanh after 2 gold medals is the respect of the opponents and the love of the fans. The "golden girl" of Vietnamese sports also received a hot prize of 50 million dong right after the one-of-a-kind contest at the SEA Games...

But perhaps how is not enough for a talent, an athlete with extraordinary will and energy like Nguyen Thi Oanh. Few people know that for many years, the girl from Bac Giang only received a salary of several million dong.

Most recently, the highest salary of Nguyen Thi Oanh in the locality is 7 million VND/month. In addition to some modes when joining the team with achievements in the international arena, the SEA Games champion does not have any additional payments.

For a long time, Nguyen Thi Oanh had to sell online with some friends to have more money to buy shoes, functional foods, tonics... to serve her training. And every time there is a medal achievement award, Oanh saves it to give to her parents, sisters...

In the unexpected difficulty of the Southeast Asian champion, Nguyen Thi Oanh still rose with great will. She is currently in graduate school and is about to get her master's degree. Oanh's future dream is to continue to be attached to athletics, to be a coach after retiring.

Still know that the career of athletes is very hard and sacrificed, but a champion like Nguyen Thi Oanh without a living wage is hard to think of.

Hopefully after the miracle she has just won, Nguyen Thi Oanh not only receives more hot bonuses to encourage her spirit, but she is also better taken care of by the sports industry and the governing unit, making up for what her legs run. Born in 1995, he had to make sacrifices and sacrifices.

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