Vietnam will spend US$44,000 to send three athletes for 6-month training trip in Germany and Bhutan to prepare for the Southeast Asian Games in November in Indonesia and the Asian qualifiers of the 2012 London Olympic Games.

Vu Thi Huong, 25, and Le Ngoc Phuong are scheduled to fly to Germany on April 18 to start their training sessions at Cologne sports college.

The other women Truong Thanh Hang, 25, will start her training in China for the whole month of May before flying to Germany to join training with her teammates. During the training sessions, both Huong and Hang will partake some track and field tournaments in Japan and South Korea.

Hang won gold medal at the women’s 800m event of the 2007 Asian Athletics Championship in Jordan and many other titles at Southeast Asian arena.

Huong won women's 100m event and the bronze medal in women's 200m event at the 2007 Asian Athletics Championship in Jordan; and another bronze medal in women's 100m and silver medal in the women's 200m event at the 16th Asian Games in China in 2009.

Source: Tuoi Tre