The former female wrestler Ni Samnang, who won a gold medal in wrestling at the 2013 SEA Games in Myanmar, who has retired many years from her career as a national wrestler, has praised the intelligence of grassroots wrestlers recently, who use basic techniques during competitions rather than using strength to defeat their opponents.
Ni Samnang said this when she attended the 2025 National Wrestling Championship at the National Stadium.
She said that using technique combined with strength is more effective than using strength alone, meaning that using strong technique and strength together is a smart strategy, with a high winning percentage for the competition.
She has reminded that, when she had trained as a female wrestler, when in competitions, most of times, she had used a lot of physical strength with little technique. Because at that time, there were no modern tools that could be used to train new techniques like today, so she had only trained according to the techniques that coaches had told her.
Ni Samnang has seen the level of ability of the current grassroots wrestlers. She was an former female athlete hopes and believes that, Cambodia wrestling will grow and have the potential to win medals for the country from major international competitions, according to the plans of the Wrestling Federation, such as the Asian Youth Games and the Olympics, etc.
The former female wrestler and gold medalist of the SEA Games decided to retire from wrestling in 2019 because she decided to start a family and currently, she has a 6-year-old daughter and is also a civil servant working as an official in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, working at the National Stadium. In addition to working in the state, she is also a physical education teacher who helps in the health sector outside.
Please remind that, former female wrestler Ni Samnang is from Battambang province. She began training as a wrestler at the age of 17. She began winning high-level medals for the country in 2013 at the SEA Games in Myanmar, 2015 won a bronze medal at the Asian Beach Games in Thailand, and 2023 won a bronze medal at the Pre-SEA Games before the SEA Games.
