Nguyễn Văn Bình (judoka)

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Personal information
Born 1936 (1936) (age 80)
Hanoi, Vietnam

Nguyễn Văn Bình was born in Hanoi Vietnam in 1936.[1] He was a Judo competitor for South Vietnam during the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.[2]

He started training in Judo in 1953 and would become a national champ by the year 1956 under Cu Ton.[1]

He competed at the age of 24, and would place 19th in the Men's lightweight division.[2] He would become a 7th degree black belt in Judo.[1]

In 1962 he started to study Taekwondo. This was under Nam Tae Hi who was a Korean military instructor as part of the initial group of officers in the South Vietnamese Army.[3] He would establish 9 schools of martial arts in Vietnam and teach over 60,000 students before the Fall of Saigon in 1975.[1] He would later earn a 9th degree blackbelt in Taekwondo.[1] He operates a school in Houston Texas.[3]

See also

List of taekwondo grandmasters

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Taekwondo grand master from Alief earns his ninth-degree black belt RONALD BOYCE WALKER, Chronicle correspondent October 24, 2002
  2. 1 2 South Vietnam Judo at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games www.sports-reference.com
  3. 1 2 The story begins back in 1967 in Vietnam By Hung Tri Nguyen www.itkd.co.nz

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