HÀ NỘI — Dương Thị Hoa and Nguyễn Hồng Ngân won two bronze medals for Việt Nam on the eighth day of competition at the Sakha Republic’s (Yakutia) Children of Asia Games.

Hoa finished third in the girls’ 200m athletic event with a time of 25.77sec, behind Pekhtireva Yelena of Azerbaijan and Moiseeva Daria of the Ural Federal District.

Ngân and Beatrice Kassandra Gaerlan of the Philippines came third in the girls’ 55kg category taekwondo event after losing in the semi-finals.

Mongolian Boldbaatar Namuun took the gold, while the silver medal went to Lee Seungmin of South Korea.

Chess players also competed in eight rounds on July 12.

FIDE master Trần Minh Thắng, defeated by Garidmagnai Byambasuren, lost his first position.

First seed Thắng now has 5.5 points, the same as his teammate Nguyễn Đặng Hồng Phúc who drew Sylyev Nedir in the third board. They are in the second group, 0.5 point behind Byambasuren and Sin Denis, both of whom have six points.

Among the girls, Hà Phương Hoàng Mai tied with third seed Grigorieva Yulia. Phương is now in third position and one point behind Yulia and 0.5 point behind master Otgonsuvd Batsaikhan, who is in second place.

The Việt Nam team’s only win of the day was by Đồng Khánh Linh, who beat Thuduwage Yasasirini Pabasara. But Linh, with four points, has no chance of entering the top three ranks as only one round is left in the tournament.

With five gold, three silver and eight bronze medals, Việt Nam are at No 10 in the medal tally.

Siberian Federal District are on top with 41 golds, followed by Kazakhstan with 17 and Sakha Republic (Yakutia) with 12. — VNS