Việt Nam’s women’s national football team dropped six spots from 29th to 35th in the latest FIFA rankings for the first quarter of 2016, with 1,620 points.

Vietnamese fencers Vũ Thành An and Nguyễn Thị Lệ Dung have added three more points each via the Fencing Grand Prix Sabre in South Korea

Singapore’s Constant Wind Seasports and Sailing School have sponsored sailing boats valued VNĐ2.5 billion (US$108,700) for the Việt Nam Canoeing, Rowing and Sailing Federation (VCRSF).

Vietnamese top tennis player Lý Hoàng Nam lost to Japanese Kento Takeuchi in the main round of the Japan F4 Futures tennis tournament yesterday.

Bình Thuận won the 2016 Kedah International Dragon Boat festival which wrapped up in Tangjung Chali, Alor Setar, Kedah, Malaysia over the weekend.

Việt Nam will be in Group A with Thailand, Iran and Chinese Taipei in the upcoming Asian Women’s Club Volleyball Championship, according to the event’s draw held on Sunday in the northern province of Ninh Bình.

Vietnamese gymnast Phạm Phước Hưng has won a bronze medal in the parallel bars event at the ninth Artistic Gymnastics World Challenge Cup that ended in Doha, Qatar.

Although the chances of Việt Nam reaching the final round of the 2018 FIFA World Cup/2019 Asian Cup joint qualifiers are slim, Việt Nam will try to beat Iraq in the final match of the event’s second qualifying round to be held in Iran today, according to Vietnamese coach Nguyễn Hữu Thắng.

The National Women’s Football Championship 2016 marked a new step up as it welcomed one more participant to this year’s event.