Regular training of basic skills provides foundations for young badminton players to strive for high achievements.

Appearance of gaps

In shuttlecock kicking, when the National Sports Games wraps up at the end of the year, at his age, Nguyen Anh Tuan (born in 1985), Dinh Van Duc (born in 1990) or Nguyen Thi Dao (born in1991) and Diem Dang Huy (born in 1992) will find it hard to maintain their peak. 

With badminton, marriage and age are factors that make Vu Thi Trang (born in 1992) or Nguyen Thi Sen (born in1991) consider their future after competition career. Other sports like chess, sepak takraw and athletics are also in a similar state when generation transfer becomes an inevitability of the four-year cycle of the Games.

The gaps are easy to be seen but it can be hoped that they will fill by the proactiveness in the preparation of each sport. For example, for badminton, from the moment when Trang and Sen were still at their peak, many young players were named in the competition team. 

The early presence in major tournaments, especially the national team championship, helped Tran Thi Phuong Thuy (born in 2000), Than Van Anh (born in 2003) or Nguyen Thi Ngoc Lan (born in 2002) have opportunities to practice and accumulate experience. Even this sport has a longer plan with a series of promising teenager players such as Tran Quoc Khanh and Ha Thi Huong Giang (both born in 2006); Tran Thi Thuy Cai and Vu Thi Hoa (both born in 2007) ...

The shuttlecock kicking is temporarily stable with a large contingent of young athletes. Players who were born from 1997 to 2001 include Nguyen Thi Lan, Nguyen Thi Thu Uyen, Bach Thu Uyen and Le Thi Tam. Next, to them, Nguyen Ba Do (born in 2003), Nguyen Thi Phuong (born in 2002) and Ha Thi Khuyen (born in 2004) all won medals at the national junior competitions. 

Meanwhile, the force preparation of the wrestling has been done more attentively and drastically when all athletes are aged 20 or below (54 athletes). The faces like Than Thi Anh (born in 1998), twin brothers Ngo Van Vuong - Ngo Van Quoc (born in 1998) and Dao Duy Huong (born in 2000) have even become the mainstay. They are now being invested to compete for gold medals at the upcoming National Sports Games.

Maintaining district-level classes for talented players

These results were derived from the maintenance of a system of district-level classes for talented players. There are 17 classes with the annual target of 85 talented athletes. Each year, the provincial Centre for Sports Training and Competition organizes two times of enrollment and two professional examinations and assessments in combination with the selection of the most outstanding athletes for young teams. The center also requires coaches to regularly seek and propose additional quality young resources.

By this way, Bac Giang’s high-performance sports has basically filled the gaps in force, and always maintained the next generation of quality athletes. This is reflected in the achievements gained in the national and international junior tournaments and those for age groups. 

Since the beginning of the year, after 17 tourneys in the above-mentioned system, Bac Giang young athletes have won 35 gold, 30 silver, and 40 bronze medals, most of which came from the sports with strength and even many achievements were assessed specially excellent. 

For example, in badminton, at the national junior championship, the local players bagged seven gold, four silver and two bronze medals, ranking first in the medal tally. Or in wrestling, young wrestlers also left strong impressions at the Southeast Asian Junior and Cadet Wrestling Championship with four gold and two silver medals...

The above results confirmed that the training to form young forces of Bac Giang’s high-performance sports is on the right track. They have also become the driving force and confidence for athletes in the journey to conquer the National Sports Games in the future.

Quoc Truong