Worapoj Petchkoom ( th, วรพจน์ เพชรขุ้ม; ; born May 18, 1981) is a Thai boxer who competed in the bantamweight (54 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal losing to Cuban superstar

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. He qualified for the Athens Games by ending up in first place in the 2nd AIBA Asian 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in

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. In the final he defeated India's Diwakar Prasad.

Amateur career

In 2005 he competed for Thailand at the Boxing World Cup in

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, losing both his matches in the preliminary round. At the Asian Games 2006 he lost to eventual winner Joan Tipon 13:13 (countback). At the world 2007 he was upset by Hungarian David Oltvanyi 9:10 in an early round.

Olympic results

2004 (as a bantamweight) *Defeated

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(South Korea) RSC 3 (1:47) *Defeated Khavazhi Khatsigov (Belarus) 33-18 *Defeated Nestor Bolum (Nigeria) 29-14 *Defeated Aghasi Mammadov (Azerbaijan) 27-19 *Lost to

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(Cuba) 13-22 2008 (as a bantamweight) *1st round bye *Defeated

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(Italy) 12-1 *Lost to Yankiel León (Cuba) 2-10

World Amateur Championships results

2007 (as a bantamweight) *Defeated Joan Tipon (Philippines) 13-5 *Lost to

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(Hungary) 9-10

2009 Ban

In 2009, Petchkoom was banned from boxing for 3 months after he posed for photos in the gay lifestyle magazine ''Stage''.http://www.fridae.com/newsfeatures/2009/08/31/8886.thai-boxer-faces-3-month-ban-for-posing-in-gay-magazine

References

External links

Asian Games 2006
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