Panipak ready for gold medal hunt
TAEKWONDO: Thailand have won Olympic medals in only three sports - boxing, weightlifting and taekwondo.
Taekwondo star Panipak Wongpattanakit poses with her gold medal. Photo: Bangkok Post
But while the Kingdom’s boxing and weightlifting associations have seen their athletes claim golds, the Taekwondo Association of Thailand (TAT) is still looking for its first Olympic champion.
Thai taekwondo fighters have secured at least one medal in every Games since Athens 2004 when Yaowapa Burapolchai took bronze to become the country’s first Olympic medallist in Korea’s martial art.
In all, Thai taekwondo exponents have brought home two silver and three bronze medals from the Games.
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