Medal record | ||
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Women's athletics | ||
Representing Vietnam | ||
Asian Games | ||
2010 Guangzhou | 800 m | |
2010 Guangzhou | 1500 m | |
Asian Championships | ||
2007 Amman | 800 m | |
2011 Kobe | 800 m | |
2011 Kobe | 1500 m | |
2007 Amman | 1500 m | |
2009 Guangzhou | 800 m | |
2009 Guangzhou | 1500 m | |
Asian Indoor Championships | ||
2010 Tehran | 800 m | |
Southeast Asian Games | ||
2005 Manila | 1500 m | |
2007 Khorat | 800 m | |
2007 Khorat | 1500 m | |
2009 Vientaine | 800 m | |
2009 Vientaine | 1500 m | |
2011 Palembang | 800 m | |
2011 Palembang | 1500 m | |
2005 Manila | 800 m |
Trương Thanh Hằng (born 1 May 1986 in Ho Chi Minh City) is a Vietnamese track and field athlete who specialises in middle-distance running events. She is the Vietnamese record holder over both 800 metres and 1500 metres.
She is one of Asia's foremost middle-distance runners, having been Asian champion over 800 m both indoors and outdoors. She was a double silver medallist for Vietnam at the 2010 Asian Games. She has also been highly successful at the Southeast Asian Games, where she has won gold medals on five occasions from 2005 to 2009.
Born in Ho Chi Minh City, Thanh Hang won a national title over 1500 metres in 2004 and began to represent her country internationally the following year, beginning with a sixth-place finish at the 2005 Asian Athletics Championships. She won the 1500 m gold medal at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games, breaking the Games record and Vietnamese national record, and she also claimed the bronze medal in the women's 800 metres. Her next major competition was the 2006 Asian Games and she was knocked out in the qualifying rounds of the 800 m, but took fourth in her 1500 m speciality, improving her national mark to 4:17.66 minutes in the process.