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Nguyễn Văn Bình (judoka)

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Vietnamese judoka In this Vietnamese name, the surname is Nguyễn, but is often simplified to Nguyen in English-language text. In accordance with Vietnamese custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Bình.
Nguyễn Văn Bình
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Born1939 (1939) (age 86)
Hanoi, Vietnam

Nguyễn Văn Bình (born December 1, 1939) is a Vietnamese former judoka. He was a judo competitor for South Vietnam during the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.

He started training in judo in 1953 and would become a national champ by the year 1956 under Cu Ton.

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

In 1962 he started to study Taekwon-do. 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. He was able to study under and work with Taekwon-do's founder General Choi Hong Hi starting 1967. He would establish 9 schools of martial arts in Vietnam and teach over 60,000 students before the Fall of Saigon in 1975. He would later earn a 9th degree blackbelt in Taekwondo, and operates a school with his family in Houston Texas teaching Taekwon-do, Judo, Aikido and Tai Chi. He is the President of ITF-USA and has supported the younger generation of Taekwon-do instructors in Texas and across the United States through seminars, examinations, administrative advice and continued leadership.

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References

  1. Nguyen Van Binh info on Olympics website
  2. ^ Taekwondo grand master from Alief earns his ninth-degree black belt RONALD BOYCE WALKER, Chronicle correspondent October 24, 2002
  3. ^ South Vietnam Judo at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games www.sports-reference.com
  4. "Instructors". Van Binh Academy. 1970-01-01. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  5. The story begins back in 1967 in Vietnam By Hung Tri Nguyen www.itkd.co.nz
  6. https://www.itf-usa.org/index.html Archived 2020-01-17 at the Wayback Machine ITF-USA
  7. "GM van Binh and Master Tran in Finland".
  8. "Taekwondo ITF & Kickboxing | Fit & Kick Sugar Land".
  9. https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3e7b86_5a0301e544dc49469fd9914104ada897~mv2_d_3166_2774_s_4_2.jpg/v1/fill/w_1907,h_1671,al_c,q_90/3e7b86_5a0301e544dc49469fd9914104ada897~mv2_d_3166_2774_s_4_2.webp

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