| Nguyễn Văn Bình | |
| Birth Place: | Hanoi, Vietnam |
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Nguyễn Văn Bình (born December 1, 1939[1]) is a Vietnamese former judoka.[2] He was a judo competitor for South Vietnam during the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.[3]
He started training in judo in 1953 and would become a national champ by the year 1956 under Cu Ton.[2]
He competed at the age of 24, and would place 19th in the Men's lightweight division.[3] He would become a 7th degree black belt in Judo.[2]
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.[4] 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.[2] He would later earn a 9th degree blackbelt in Taekwondo,[2] and operates a school with his family in Houston Texas teaching Taekwon-do, Judo, Aikido and Tai Chi.[5] He is the President of ITF-USA[6] and has supported the younger generation of Taekwon-do instructors in Texas and across the United States through seminars,[7] examinations,[8] administrative advice and continued leadership.[9]
