Hoàng Hà Giang
Appearance
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Birth name | Hoàng Hà Giang | ||||||||||||||
Nationality | Vietnamese | ||||||||||||||
Born | Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | 30 April 1991||||||||||||||
Died | 7 December 2015 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | (aged 24)||||||||||||||
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Country | Vietnam | ||||||||||||||
Sport | Taekwondo | ||||||||||||||
Event | –55 kg | ||||||||||||||
Turned pro | 2006 | ||||||||||||||
Retired | 2008 | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Hoàng Hà Giang (30 April 1991 – 7 December 2015)[1] was a Vietnamese Taekwondo athlete who competed in the Women's –55 kg weight class at the 2006 Asian Games, and she won the silver medal.
In 2008, when just 17 years old, she wes diagnosed with SLE, which made her retire from professional taekwondo. In 2013, she was caught in a traffic accident that broke her leg. She died on 7 December 2015.[2]