Payao Poontarat (Thai: พเยาว์ พูลธรัตน์, RTGS: Phayao Phuntharat, pronounced[pʰā.jāwpʰūːn.tʰā.rát]; October 18, 1956 – August 13, 2006) was a Thai boxer who, at the age of 18, won the bronze medal in the men's Light flyweight (-48 kg) category at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He was the first Thai athlete to win an Olympic medal in any sport.
The country won their first Olympic medal, a bronze for boxing's PayaoPoontarat. It became the third Southeast Asian country to win the first Olympic...
Thailand won its first medal at the 1976 Games in Montreal, when boxer PayaoPoontarat took home a bronze in the Men's Light Flyweight category. Thailand's...
second Thai athlete to win a medal at the Summer Olympics, following PayaoPoontarat at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He is the third of six children. He started...
division at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He lost his first match against PayaoPoontarat. He also won one national senior title and one bronze medal at the...
in both tries. After his final try, a tenth-round knockout loss to PayaoPoontarat in 1984, he retired. His son, Guty Espadas Jr., was a boxing champion...
However, in the fight between the WBA's Jirō Watanabe and the WBC's PayaoPoontarat, Watanabe was stripped of his WBA title before the fight since he participated...
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participated: 1952 Summer Olympics, 1952. First Thai Olympic medalist: PayaoPoontarat (Boxing), Also the first Thai bronze Olympic medalist, 1976. First...
including against Mexican challenger Raul Valdez, before losing it to PayaoPoontarat by decision in 1983. In 1985 he took on WBA super flyweight title holder...
Payakaroon debuted on April 2, 1985, by defeating fellow-countryman PayaoPoontarat, a former WBC Super flyweight champion. He made a total of nine wins...
his studies. He has come to live at Surat Sianglor (same trainer as PayaoPoontarat)'s Muay Thai gym where the fighters will have the opportunity to study...