Hanoi International Martial Arts Festival 2026

The 2026 festival has ended

Hanoi International Martial Arts Festival 2026 took place from 7 to 9 August. VOV reports that the opening was held at the Thăng Long Imperial Citadel and that the closing ceremony on the evening of 9 August at Đền Bà Kiệu brought the three-day program to an end.

This page is now an archive, not an attendance guide. The dates, venues and program below describe the completed 2026 edition. They should not be used as instructions for a future trip or as evidence that another edition has been scheduled.

• Event dates: 7–9 August 2026
• Opening setting reported by VOV: Thăng Long Imperial Citadel
• Closing setting reported by VOV and Báo Điện tử Chính phủ: Đền Bà Kiệu, 9 August 2026
• Current page status: historical archive

What the post-event reports verify

Báo Điện tử Chính phủ and VOV both report nearly 2,000 masters, students, coaches, athletes and artists across 66 martial arts delegations. The reported breakdown was 59 delegations from Vietnamese provinces and cities plus seven international delegations representing six countries.

The program combined traditional and modern martial arts demonstrations, competition and exchange, together with displays of martial arts uniforms, weapons and objects connected with historical materials. These are post-event descriptions from the cited reports, not promises about what a future visitor will see.

The reports describe the 2026 edition as the first festival and quote organizers discussing further study and development of the model. That is not a confirmed date, venue, admission policy or program for another edition, so this archive does not present one.

How to read this archive

Use the article to understand the completed festival's cultural frame: martial arts were presented alongside heritage, performance and international exchange across central Hanoi settings. For current travel planning, use the Hanoi Guide and verify live opening hours, access and event notices from the responsible venue or organizer.

The hero is a newly created editorial scene of adult martial artists in a Hanoi heritage courtyard. It supports the topic but is not documentary photography from the 2026 festival and should not be used to identify a performer, school or exact moment from the event.

Source and update notes

The opening report and Hanoi plan remain linked below as dated records of the 2026 program. The two post-event reports confirm that the festival ended on 9 August and support the retrospective facts used in this update.

Sources for this archive update were checked on 11 October 2026. Future editions, if any, require a new dated organizer notice before this page should provide attendance guidance again.