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Tham Nguyen
 Nguyen training in the 2023 World Weightlifting Championships training hall | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Birth name | Nguyễn Thẩm | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Thammy | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Irish | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 15 September 1996 Vietnam | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Portobello Institute (BSc)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.47 m (4 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 49.00 kg (108 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | 49 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Mohamed Faizal Baharom, Beata Jung | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Tham "Thammy" Nguyen Gough (née Nguyen; /θjæm wɪn/; Vietnamese: Nguyễn Thẩm, [ŋwiən˦ˀ˥˦ tʰaːm˧˩]; born 15 September 1996) is an Irish retired weightlifter, known for being the first Irish weightlifter to win a senior medal at the European Weightlifting Championships.
Immigrating to Ireland from Vietnam at an early age, Nguyen and her family experienced hardships in the country. She moved to different towns before settling in Clarehall, where she then found out about Olympic weightlifting in a gym. She supported her weightlifting career financially through her businesses.
In her early weightlifting years, she competed at the European Junior & U23 Weightlifting Championships in 2015 as the first woman to represent Ireland at the competition. The same year, she competed at the World Weightlifting Championships, once again becoming the first Irish woman to represent the country in the championships. Eight years later, she competed at the 2023 European Weightlifting Championships, lifting 98 kilograms in the clean and jerk, earning the first bronze and first medal ever for the nation. The following year, in the same competition, she earned the first total medal for the nation. Having narrowly failed to qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics, she retired in April 2024.
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