Lê Thanh Tùng

In this Vietnamese name, the surname is Lê. In accordance with Vietnamese custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Tùng.
Lê Thanh Tùng
Born (1995-10-24) 24 October 1995
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Height165 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Gymnastics career
DisciplineMen's artistic gymnastics
Country
represented		 Vietnam
Head coach(es)Truong Minh Sang
Medal record
Representing  Vietnam
Asian Championships
2017 Bangkok Vault
2019 Ulaanbaatar Horizontal bar
Southeast Asian Games
2015 Singapore Team
2015 Singapore Vault
2017 Kuala Lumpur Team
2017 Kuala Lumpur Vault
2017 Kuala Lumpur Horizontal bar
2021 Vietnam Team
2023 Cambodia Team
2021 Vietnam All-around
2023 Cambodia All-around
2015 Singapore Pommel horse
2019 Philippines All-around
2019 Philippines Vault
2019 Philippines Parallel bars
FIG World Cup
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Apparatus World Cup 1 0 0
World Challenge Cup 0 1 0
Total 1 1 0

Lê Thanh Tùng (born 24 October 1995)[1] is a Vietnamese artistic gymnast. He is the 2017 Asian vault champion and the 2019 Asian horizontal bar bronze medalist. He is a seven-time SEA Games champion. He represented Vietnam at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.

Gymnastics career

Tùng began gymnastics at the age of five because his brother was also a gymnast. He moved to China at the age of eight to improve his training but returned home eight years later due to homesickness.[2][3]

Tùng competed at the 2014 Asian Games and helped the Vietnamese team finish fifth,[4] and he advanced into the all-around final, finishing eighth.[5] He finished 83rd in the all-around qualifications at the 2014 World Championships.[6] At the 2015 SEA Games, Tùng contributed to Vietnam's team gold medal.[7] Individually, he won a gold medal in the vault final and a bronze medal in the pommel horse final.[8][9]

Tùng won a gold medal on the vault at the 2017 Doha World Cup.[10] He then won a vault gold medal at the 2017 Asian Championships.[11] Then at the 2017 SEA Games, he helped Vietnam defend the team title by nearly 14 points.[12] In the event finals, he won gold medals on the vault and horizontal bar.[13]

Tùng competed at the 2018 Asian Games held in Jakarta, Indonesia, and helped Vietname finish fifth in the team event. He placed eighth in the all-around, fifth in the floor exercise final, and sixth in the vault final.[1] At the 2018 Szombathely World Challenge Cup, he won a silver medal on the vault.[14] He won the bronze medal on the horizontal bar at the 2019 Asian Championships despite competing with an injured ankle.[2][15]

Tùng advanced to the vault final at the 2019 World Championships and placed fifth. As a result, he earned a berth to the 2020 Summer Olympics.[3][16] He then competed at the 2019 SEA Games and won the all-around bronze medal behind Carlos Yulo and Đinh Phương Thành. He won two more bronze medals in the vault and parallel bars finals.[17]

At the 2021 SEA Games, Tùng helped Vietnam win the team title, and he won the all-around silver medal behind Yulo.[18] He then won bronze medals in the rings, parallel bars, and horizontal bar final.[19] Due to an ankle injury, he only competed on the vault and the horizontal bar at the 2020 Summer Olympics, and he did not advance into either final.[2][20] At the 2023 SEA Games, Tùng helped Vietnam defend its team title, and he won another all-around silver medal, once again behind Yulo.[21]

References

  1. ^ a b "Artistic Gymnastics" (PDF). 2018 Asian Games. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 June 2020. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "Le Thanh Tung - FIG Athlete Profile". International Gymnastics Federation. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
  3. ^ a b "Twists and turns in the life of a would-be Olympic gymnast; "Practice makes perfect"". Vietnam Net. 30 April 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
  4. ^ "Gymnastics Artistic Men's Qualification And Team Final" (PDF). Gymnastics Results. Incheon 2014. 21 September 2014. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
  5. ^ "Gymnastics Artistic Men's Individual All-Around Final" (PDF). Gymnastics Results. Incheon 2014. 23 September 2014. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
  6. ^ "45th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Nanning (CHN) Men's Qualification" (PDF). USA Gymnastics. International Gymnastics Federation. 3 October 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 August 2022. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  7. ^ Etchells, Daniel (7 June 2015). "Vietnam claim artistic gymnastics double at Southeast Asian Games". Inside the Games. Archived from the original on 26 July 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  8. ^ "28th SouthEast Asian Games Singapore 2015 Apparatus Finals Day 1". Asian Gymnastics Union. 9 June 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
  9. ^ "28th SouthEast Asian Games Singapore 2015 Apparatus Finals Day 2". Asian Gymnastics Union. 10 June 2015. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
  10. ^ "Liu Tingting wins twice as China continues impressive Gymnastics World Cup showing". International Gymnastics Federation. 27 March 2017. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
  11. ^ "China wrests back overall title in 7th Asian Seniors Gymnastics Championships". Asian Gymnastics Union. 22 May 2017. Retrieved 21 June 2025.
  12. ^ "Vietnam win men's team gold, Malaysian women retain title". Asian Gymnastics Union. 22 August 2017. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
  13. ^ Azharie, Farah (23 August 2017). "Farah Ann defends gold medal as Malaysia also secures silver, bronze in gymnastics". New Straits Times. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
  14. ^ "Verniaiev continues comeback at Szombathely World Challenge Cup". International Gymnastics Federation. 24 September 2018. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
  15. ^ "Vietnam win two Asian gymnastic bronzes". Vietnam+. 23 June 2019. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
  16. ^ "Gymnast Le Thanh Tung and the goal of conquering the Olympic arena". Nhan Dan. 13 February 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
  17. ^ Etchells, Daniel (3 December 2019). "Philippines on top at Southeast Asian Games as Typhoon Kammuri forces rescheduling". Inside the Games. Archived from the original on 31 July 2020. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  18. ^ "SEA Games 31: Vietnamese gymnasts win gold in artistic men's team". Vietnam+. 13 May 2022. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
  19. ^ Browne, Ken (15 May 2022). "SEA Games 2022: Day four as it happened - Singapore's Joseph Schooling defends 100m fly crown, Carlos Yulo, Aleah Finnegan and Rifda Irfanaluthfi shine in gymnastics". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
  20. ^ "Artistic Gymnastics Men Qualification Results" (PDF). Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. 24 July 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2021. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  21. ^ Lloyd, Owen (9 May 2023). "Yulo seals third consecutive all-around title at Southeast Asian Games". Inside the Games. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
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