Suban Pannon

Suban Pannon (Thai: สุบรรณ พันโนน; RTGS: Suban Phannon; born May 10, 1978, in Khon Kaen) is a Thai amateur boxer who won a gold medal at the 1998 Asian Games.

Suban Pannon

Personal information
Full name	สุุบรรณ พันโนน
Nationality	Thailand
Born	(1978-05-10) May 10, 1978 (age 45) Mueang Khon Kaen, Khon Kaen Province
Height	1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight	48 kg (106 lb)
Sport
Sport	Boxing
Weight class	Light flyweight
Club	Royal Thai Navy, Bangkok
Medal record World Amateur Championships 1999 Houston Light flyweight Asian Games 1998 Bangkok Light flyweight 2006 Doha Light flyweight 2002 Busan Light flyweight Asian Championships 2002 Seremban Light flyweight 2005 Ho Chi Minh City Light flyweight

Career

Pannon won the 1998 Asian Games in the men's light flyweight division. He claimed the bronze medal in the same division one year earlier, at the 1999 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Houston, Texas.

He participated in the 2000 Summer Olympics for his native Southeast Asian country. There he was beaten in the second round of the light flyweight (– 48 kg) division by Ukraine's Valeriy Sydorenko. In this fight he lost because his ankle sprained during the bout.

At the 2002 Asian Games he medaled again.

He also participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics, but was stopped in the second round by Cuba's eventual winner Yan Bartelemí. Pannon qualified for the Athens Games by ending up in second place at the 1st AIBA Asian 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Guangzhou, PR China. In the final he lost to Tajikistan's Sherali Dostiev.

In 2005 Pannon competed for Thailand at the Boxing World Cup in Moscow, Russia, with one win and one loss. He competed at the 2006 Asian Games in the Light Flyweight (-48 kg) division and won the silver medal in a lost match against China's Zou Shiming 1-11.^[1]

Currently, he is a boxing coach for Thailand national amateur boxing team including a coach for the Myanmar national amateur boxing team for a while.^[2] For Thailand national team whose his students include Sudaporn Seesondee, who won a bronze medal in the women's Lightweight (-60 kg) division at 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

References

Notes

1. Light flyweight final bout results
2. macky (2015-06-09). "สุบรรณ พันโนน โค้ชพม่า หัวใจไทย!!". smmsport (in Thai). Retrieved 2017-09-03.

Sources

• 1998 results
• Profile^{[dead link]}
• at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)