HA NOI (VNS)—Up to 21 divers will compete in the 2013 National Diving Championships set to kick off next Wednesday at the National Sport Training Centre in Ha Noi.

Divers from HCM City, Ha Noi and Hai Phong will compete in 1m and 3m springboards and the 5, 7.5 and 10m platform rounds.

The event will allow sporting officials to select athletes for the national team, which last competed at the Southeast Asian Games in 2011. Vietnamese divers brought home two gold medals from the 2011 Games, held in Indonesia.

The national championship will finish on September 1. The first championship debuted in 2004.-VNS