Nguyễn Thúy Hiền

Nguyễn Thúy Hiền in 2017
Personal information
Nickname(s)	'Nữ hoàng Wushu' ("Queen of Wushu") 'Cô gái vàng' ("Golden Girl")
Born	(1979-11-03)3 November 1979 (age 46) Hanoi, Vietnam
Sport
Sport	Wushu
Event(s)	Changquan,Daoshu,Qiangshu
Team	Vietnam (1993–2005)
Now coaching	Dương Thúy Vi
Medal record Representing Vietnam Women'sWushu World Championships 1993 Kuala Lumpur Daoshu 1997 Rome Qiangshu 1999 Hong Kong Changquan 2001 Yerevan Changquan (old) 2001 Yerevan Daoshu (new) 2001 Yerevan Qiangshu (old) 2003 Macau Daoshu 1993 Kuala Lumpur Changquan 1995 Baltimore Daoshu 1997 Rome Changquan 1997 Rome Daoshu 1999 Hong Kong Daoshu 1999 Hong Kong Qiangshu 1995 Baltimore Changquan 1995 Baltimore Qiangshu Asian Games 1998 Incheon CQ All-Around Asian Championships 2000 Hanoi Daoshu 1996 Manila Daoshu 2000 Hanoi CQ All-around 1996 Manila Changquan 2000 Hanoi Changquan 2000 Hanoi Qiangshu SEA Games 1997 Jakarta Changquan 1997 Jakarta Daoshu 2001 Kuala Lumpur Changquan 2001 Kuala Lumpur Daoshu 2001 Kuala Lumpur Qiangshu 2003 Hanoi Changquan 2003 Hanoi Daoshu 2003 Hanoi Qiangshu Southeast Asian Championships 1995 Hanoi Changquan 1995 Hanoi Daoshu

Nguyễn Thúy Hiền (born 3 November 1979) is a retired Vietnamesewushu athlete. Considered one of the greatest figures in wushu history and an icon of Vietnamese sports, she won seven world wushu championships.^[1][2][3]

Thúy Hiền grew up in theGia Lâm District ofHanoi.^[4] Her father was a player at the football clubSong Lam Nghe An FC, and her sister Nguyễn Thuý Vinh became a national player in badminton.^[5]

At the age of eleven, she and her sister began practicingshaolinquan in secret from her mother but with support from their father.^[1] Due to her success in various competitions, she was selected by Hoàng Vĩnh Giang of the Hanoi Department of Physical Education to enter the first wushu class in Hanoi after just a year of training.^[1] She started training with Nguyễn Tùng Lâm, Nguyễn Xuân Thi, and Chinese coaches Trần Húc Hồng and Phan Hán Quang. After further success, she was selected to the national team in 1993 at the age of fourteen.^[6]

After joining the Vietnamese Wushu Team, Thúy Hiền's international debut was at the1993 World Wushu Championships in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where she became the first world champion in wushu for Vietnam by winning the daoshu event.^[7][8] She also won a silver medal in changquan at the competition.^[9] Her world title at just fourteen years old set in motion the popularity of wushu across Vietnam, and Thúy Hiền began to become a household name.^[10] A year later, she competed in thewomen's changquan event at the1994 Asian Games and finished fifth overall.^[11] Another year later, she competed at the1995 World Wushu Championships in Baltimore, USA, and was a triple-medalist, winning a silver medal in daoshu and two bronze medals in changquan and qiangshu.^[12]

In early 1996, she was sent to train with theGuangdong wushu team for ten months, then appeared at the 4thAsian Wushu Championships in Manila, Philippines, and won a silver medal in changquan and a bronze medal in daoshu.^[2] After her time in China, she competed in the wushu event at the1997 Southeast Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia, and won gold medals in changquan and daoshu.^[13] Twenty days later, she competed in the1997 World Wushu Championships in Rome, Italy, and was a triple medalist again by winning two silver medals in changquan and daoshu and becoming the world champion in qiangshu.^[14]

At the1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand, Thúy Hiền competed once again inwomen's changquan and was able to win the silver medal.^[15][16] She was a triple medalist once again at the1999 World Wushu Championships Hong Kong, this time by being world champion in changquan and winning silver medals in her weapons events.^[17] The following year, she returned to the Asian Wushu Championships in Saigon to win a gold medal in daoshu and two silver medals in changquan and qiangshu, but lost the all-around title by 0.01 points.^[18]

In the2001 Southeast Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, she became a triple gold medalist.^[4] Shortly after in the2001 World Wushu Championships in Yerevan, Armenia, she was again a triple gold medalist.^[19][20] She intended to retire after this competition due to illness, but perhaps due to her numerous successes, she remained a member of the wushu team.^[21]

A year later, she competed in the2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea, but only placed fourth inwomen's changquan.^[22] The following year, Thúy Hiền competed in the2003 World Wushu Championships in Macau where she became the world champion in daoshu.^[23] At the2003 Southeast Asian Games a few weeks later, she was the torch bearer for the opening ceremony.^[24] At the wushu competition, she was once again a triple gold medalist in changquan, daoshu, and qiangshu.^[25] After sustaining an injury at the competition, Thúy Hiền officially declared her retirement in 2005, becoming a coach and a judge in wushu with a permanent position in the Hanoi Department of Physical Education and Sports.^[26]

Nguyen married Vietnamese singer Tú Dưa in 2002, whom she met in a concert in 1998.^[2] In the 2000s, they opened a clothing store together as a side business to Thúy Hiền's coaching.^[27] The couple divorced in 2006 and Thuy Hien won custody of both of their daughters.^[2][28] She married her second husband, Tiến Dũng, on 30 March 2019 after dating for more than a year.^[29][30]

Due to her constant training and injuries in her youth, she suffers from stomach and spinal pain.^[21][4] She has stated that her relationships and pain struggles has left her to feel lonely and depressed at times.^[4]

Year	Event	CQ	DS	QS	AA
1993	World Championships
1994	Asian Games	5	6	4	5
1995	Southeast Asian Championships
	World Championships
1996	Asian Championships
1997	Southeast Asian Games
	World Championships
1998	Asian Games	?	?	?
1999	World Championships
2000	Asian Championships
2001	Southeast Asian Games
	World Championships
2002	Asian Games	5	6	4	4
2003	World Championships
	Southeast Asian Games

By theGovernment of Vietnam:

• Labor Order, 3rd class (1993)^[26]
• Labor Order, 2nd class (1997)^[2]
• Labor Order, 1st class (2001)^[25]
• "Outstanding Athlete" (1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001)^{[1][31][4][25]}

• List of Asian Games medalists in wushu
• World Wushu Championships § Statistics

• "Face of SEA Games – Wushu athlete Nguyen Thuy Hien" (In Vietnamese)
• "Nguyen Thuy Hien – the untold story of the 'golden wushu girl'" (In Vietnamese)

• 1979 births
• Living people
• Martial artists from Hanoi
• Vietnamese wushu practitioners
• Asian Games silver medalists for Vietnam
• Asian Games silver medalists in wushu
• Wushu practitioners at the 1994 Asian Games
• Wushu practitioners at the 1998 Asian Games
• Wushu practitioners at the 2002 Asian Games
• SEA Games gold medalists for Vietnam
• SEA Games medalists in wushu
• Competitors at the 1997 SEA Games
• Competitors at the 2001 SEA Games
• Competitors at the 2003 SEA Games
• Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games
• World champion wushu athletes

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