Lam Dong coach and young athlete honoured with the Labour Order by the President
A coach and a young athlete from Lam Dong have been awarded with the Labour Order by the President for their outstanding achievements at the 2025 Asian Cadet and Junior Taekwondo Championships held in Malaysia.
Specifically, Nguyen Thi Le Kim (born in 1992), a national youth poomsae Taekwondo coach from Tanh Linh Commune, Lam Dong Province, was awarded the Second-Class Labour Order for her achievements in coaching athletes to win a gold medal at the 2025 Asian Cadet and Junior Taekwondo Championships in Malaysia.
Nguyen Thi Le Kim has been devoted to Taekwondo since childhood and was a long-time member of the former Binh Thuan team, now Lam Dong. This is the third time she has had the honour of receiving the Labour Order. Previously, in 2017, when she was still an athlete, she was awarded the First and Third Class Labour Orders for her outstanding competition achievements.
Huynh Thi Hoang Tham (born in 2008), from Tanh Linh Commune, Lam Dong Province, was awarded the Third-Class Labour Order by the President.
Huynh Thi Hoang Tham is currently a member of the national youth poomsae Taekwondo team and a 12th-grade student at Tanh Linh High School. At the 2025 Asian Cadet and Junior Taekwondo Championships in Malaysia, she won a silver medal.