Thailand at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Thailand competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Thailand at the 2000 Summer Olympics
IOC code	THA
NOC	National Olympic Committee of Thailand
Website	www.olympicthai.or.th (in Thai and English)
in Sydney
Competitors	52 (34 men and 18 women) in 11 sports
Flag bearer	Somluck Kamsing
Medals Ranked 47th	Gold 1 Silver 0 Bronze 2 Total 3
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Medalists

Further information: 2000 Summer Olympics medal table and List of 2000 Summer Olympics medal winners

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Wijan Ponlid	Boxing	Flyweight	1 October
Bronze	Pornchai Thongburan	Boxing	Middleweight	29 September
Bronze	Khassaraporn Suta	Weightlifting	Women's -58 kg	18 September

Results by event

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Men's 4 × 100 m

• Kongdech Netenee, Boonyarit Phuksachat, Visanu Sophanich, Sittichai Suwonprateep

• Round 1 – 39.13
• Semifinal – 39.05 (did not advance)

Men's 4 × 400 m

• Senee Kongtong, Jirachai Linglom, Narong Nilploy, Chalermpol Noohlong

• Round 1 – 03:11.65 (did not advance)

Women's 100m Hurdles

• Trecia Roberts

• Round 1 – 13.16
• Round 2 – 12.96
• Semifinal – 13.15 (did not advance)

Women's 4 × 100 m

• Supavadee Khawpeag, Orranut Klomdee, Trecia Roberts, Wirawan Ruamsuk

• Round 1 – 44.51 (did not advance)

Badminton

Main article: Badminton at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Boonsak Ponsana	Singles	Richard Vaughan (GBR) L (8-15,2-15)	did not advance
Pramote Teerawiwatana Tesana Panvisvas	Doubles	—	Quinten van Dalm Dennis Lens (NED) W (15-11,15-7)	Choong Tan Fook Lee Wan Wah (MAS) L (11-15,17-15,15-9)	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Sujitra Ekmongkolpaisarn	Singles	Mette Sørensen (DEN) L (7-11,10-13)	did not advance
Sujitra Ekmongkolpaisarn Saralee Thungthongkam	Doubles	—	Rayoni Head Kellie Lucas (AUS) W (15-7,15-4)	Huang Nanyan Yang Wei (CHN) L (1-15,4-15)	did not advance

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Khunakorn Sudhisodhi Saralee Thungthongkam	Mixed Doubles	Peter Blackburn Rhonda Cator (AUS) W (15-4,15-12)	Kim Dong-moon Ra Kyung-min (KOR) L (7-15,2-15)	did not advance

Boxing

Main article: Boxing at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Suban Pannon	Light flyweight	Dilshod Yuldashev (UZB) W 18:16	Valeriy Sydorenko (UKR) L RSC	did not advance
Wijan Ponlid	Flyweight	Vardan Zakarjan (GER) W RSC	Andrew Kooner (CAN) W 11:7	Manuel Mantilla (CUB) W 19:8	Vladimir Sidorenko (UKR) W 14:11	Bulat Jumadilov (KAZ) W 19:12
Sontaya Wongprates	Bantamweight	Bye	Justin Kane (AUS) L 13:15	did not advance
Somluck Kamsing	Featherweight	Andres Abelino Ledesma Villalba (COL) W RSC	Tulkunbay Turgunov (UZB) W 7:2	Ricardo Juarez (USA) L RSC	did not advance
Pongsith Wiangwiset	Lightweight	Bye	Mario César Kindelán (CUB) L 8:14	did not advance
Pongsak Rientuanthong	Light Welterweight	Sven Paris (ITA) L 3:14	did not advance
Parkpoom Jangphonak	Welterweight	Geard Ajetović (YUG) W +9:9	Sergey Dotsenko (UKR) L 5:13	did not advance
Pornchai Thongburan	Light Middleweight	Bye	Karoly Balzsay (HUN) W 17:12	Hikal Mohamed Abdel Mawgoud (EGY) W 15:9	Marian Simion (ROM) L 16:26	did not advance
Somchai Cimlum	Middleweight	Jorge Gutiérrez (CUB) L 11:20	did not advance

Diving

Main article: Diving at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminary		Semifinal		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Meerit Insawang	3m springboard	306.24	43rd	did not advance
Suchart Pichi	10m platform	268.65	39th	did not advance

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Sailing

Main article: Sailing at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Men's Mistral

• Arun Homraruen

• Race 1 – 27
• Race 2 – 26
• Race 3 – 13
• Race 4 – 25
• Race 5 – 29
• Race 6 – 26
• Race 7 – 19
• Race 8 – 16
• Race 9 – 23
• Race 10 – (30)
• Race 11 – (32)
• Final – 204 (29th place)

Women's Mistral

• Napalai Tansai

• Race 1 – 16
• Race 2 – 23
• Race 3 – (25)
• Race 4 – 21
• Race 5 – 16
• Race 6 – 15
• Race 7 – 14
• Race 8 – 17
• Race 9 – (25)
• Race 10 – 17
• Race 11 – 9
• Final – 148 (19th place)

Open Laser

• Veerasit Puangnak

• Race 1 – 37
• Race 2 – 36
• Race 3 – 28
• Race 4 – 20
• Race 5 – 23
• Race 6 – 38
• Race 7 – 3
• Race 8 – (40)
• Race 9 – 20
• Race 10 – (39)
• Race 11 – 33
• Final – 238 (31st place)

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Men's 200m Freestyle

• Vicha Ratanachote

• Preliminary Heat – 1:54.91 (did not advance)

Men's 400m Freestyle

• Torwai Sethsothorn

• Preliminary Heat – 03:56.68 (did not advance)

Men's 1500m Freestyle

• Torwai Sethsothorn

• Preliminary Heat – 15:39.60 (did not advance)

Men's 200m Butterfly

• Dulyarit Phuangthong

• Preliminary Heat – 02:04.15 (did not advance)

Men's 200m Breaststroke

• Ratapong Sirisanont

• Preliminary Heat – 02:23.95 (did not advance)

Men's 100m Backstroke

• Dulyarit Phuangthong

• Preliminary Heat – 58.48 (did not advance)

Men's 200m Backstroke

• Torwai Sethsothorn

• Preliminary Heat – 02:05.52 (did not advance)

Men's 200m Individual Medley

• Pathunyu Yimsomruay

• Preliminary Heat – 02:08.38 (did not advance)

Men's 400m Individual Medley

• Torwai Sethsothorn

• Preliminary Heat – 04:28.42 (did not advance)

Women's 50m Freestyle

• Pilin Tachakittiranan

• Preliminary Heat – 27.31 (did not advance)

Women's 100m Freestyle

• Pilin Tachakittiranan

• Preliminary Heat – 58.69 (did not advance)

Women's 200m Freestyle

• Pilin Tachakittiranan

• Preliminary Heat – 02:05.88 (did not advance)

Women's 400m Freestyle

• Pilin Tachakittiranan

• Preliminary Heat – 04:29.28 (did not advance)

Women's 100m Butterfly

• Praphalsai Minpraphal

• Preliminary Heat – 01:02.99 (did not advance)

Women's 100m Backstroke

• Chonlathorn Vorathamrong

• Preliminary Heat – 01:05.98 (did not advance)

Women's 200m Backstroke

• Chonlathorn Vorathamrong

• Preliminary Heat – 02:21.59 (did not advance)

Table tennis

Main article: Table tennis at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Tennis

Main article: Tennis at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Paradorn Srichaphan	Singles	Attila Sávolt (HUN) W 2-1 (6-2,4-6,7-5)	Magnus Norman (SWE) L 0-2 (5-7,2-6)	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Tamarine Tanasugarn	Singles	Tina Pisnik (SLO) W 2-0 (6-4,6-3)	Venus Williams (USA) L 0-2 (2-6,3-6)	did not advance
Benjamas Sangaram Tamarine Tanasugarn	Doubles	—	Mariana Mesa Fabiola Zuluaga (COL) W 2-1 (7-6(4),5-7,6-4)	Nana Smith Ai Sugiyama (JPN) W 2-1 (2-6,7-5,6-2)	Kristie Boogert Miriam Oremans (NED) L 1-2 (4-6,6-3,5-7)	did not advance

Weightlifting

Main article: Weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Snatch				Clean & Jerk				Total	Rank
		1	2	3	Rank	1	2	3	Rank
Chom Singnoi	– 62 kg	122.5	122.5	122.5	DNF	-	-	-	-	-	DNF

Women

Athlete	Event	Snatch				Clean & Jerk				Total	Rank
		1	2	3	Rank	1	2	3	Rank
Khassaraporn Suta	– 58 kg	90.0	92.5	95.0	3rd	117.5	117.5	122.5	3rd	222.5
Saipin Detsaeng	– 63 kg	97.5	102.5	105.0	3rd	120.0	125.0	127.5	4th	222.5	4th
Pawina Thongsuk	– 69 kg	100.0	100.0	105.0	5th	125.0	125.0	132.5	8th	225.0	7th
Aphinya Pharksupho		95.0	102.5	105.0	4th	120.0	127.5	127.5	11th	222.5	10th

References

• Wallechinsky, David (2004). The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics (Athens 2004 Edition). Toronto, Canada. ISBN 1-894963-32-6.
• International Olympic Committee (2001). The Results. Retrieved 12 November 2005.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 1: Preparing for the Games. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 2: Celebrating the Games. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). The Results. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
• International Olympic Committee Web Site