Ngần Ngọc Nghĩa

Ngần Ngọc Nghĩa (born 20 July 1999) is a Vietnamese athlete. He competed in the men's 100 metres event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships.

Biography Ngần Ngọc Nghĩa was born in 1999 into a farming family in Hua Păng Commune, Mộc Châu District, Sơn La Province.

In 2014, coaches from the People's Public Security selected athletes at the Sơn La student athletics competition. Ngần Ngọc Nghĩa, then 15 years old, was invited by the coaches to Hanoi for training.

He took up athletics in 2015.

In the second half of 2015, Nghĩa suffered a fairly serious hamstring injury. He had to stop training or train only lightly for about six to seven months, but Ngần Ngọc Nghĩa overcame the injury.

2019 Another record was set in the men's 4×100 m relay final. The People's Public Security team, consisting of four athletes—Võ Ngọc Huy, Hoàng Mạnh Cường, Lãnh Văn Cương, and Ngần Ngọc Nghĩa—set a new national record of 40.44 seconds, surpassing the previous record set by Army athletes at the 2012 National Championships. The team won the gold medal at the 2019 National Athletics Championships.

2020 In the men's 100 m final, Ngần Ngọc Nghĩa competed against seven opponents, including former national champion Lê Trọng Hinh of Thanh Hóa, who was making his return. Ngọc Nghĩa crossed the finish line first in 10.40 seconds. Not only did he successfully defend his gold medal, but he also broke the national record of 10.47 seconds that he had set two years earlier at the 2020 National Athletics Championships, held at the Mỹ Đình National Stadium.

Ngần Ngọc Nghĩa won the gold medal at the SEA Games 31 and also broke the national record with a time of 10.35 seconds, surpassing his own previous record of 10.40 seconds, as well as the Games record of 10.47 seconds.

On 16 February 2022, Ngần Ngọc Nghĩa suffered an injury immediately after attempting to cross the finish line and win the gold medal in the men's 4×100 m relay at the SEA Games 31. The People's Public Security men's relay team, consisting of Lê Trung Kiên, Đặng Hoàng Ánh, Lãnh Văn Cương, and Ngần Ngọc Nghĩa, finished first with a time of 40.83 seconds.