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Đặng Hiếu Hiền

Vietnamese boxer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ60676819 ↗
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Ðặng Hiếu Hiền (born 20 October 1966) is a Vietnamese boxing coach and former boxer.

Early life

Đặng Hiếu Hiền was born on 20 October 1966, at Diêu Trì township, Tuy Phước district, Bình Định. However, Thanh Niên stated that he was born in 1965. When he was young, his father sent him to learn martial arts for self-defense. Hiền first entered traditional martial arts, later switched to freestyle martial arts.

Career

In 1987, he was nominated as one of the ten notable Vietnamese athletes.

He competed in the men's light flyweight event at the 1988 Summer Olympics. He defeated a Spanish opponent in the first round. Hiền's miracle was repeated by Nguyễn Văn Đương in 2021, during 2020 Summer Olympics.

He retired in 1994, after an unrelated incident involving his 1988 Olympics teammate Đỗ Tiến Tuấn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Đặng Hiếu Hiền” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.