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Sasithorn Hongprasert

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Nationality
  
Thailand

Weight
  
57 kg

Height
  
1.65 m

Name
  
Sasithorn Hongprasert

Sport
  
Shooting


Born
  
13 June 1984 (age 39) (
1984-06-13
)
Bangkok, Thailand

Event(s)
  
10 m air rifle (AR40) 50 m rifle 3 positions (STR3X20)

Sasithorn Hongprasert (Thai: ศศิธร หงษ์ประเสริฐ; born June 13, 1984 in Bangkok) is a Thai sport shooter. She won a gold medal for the rifle three positions at the 2007 Southeast Asian Games, coincidentally in her home city Bangkok, with a score of 669.5 points.

Hongprasert represented Thailand at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in two rifle shooting events, along with her teammate Thanyalak Chotphibunsin. She placed thirty-sixth out of forty-seven shooters in the women's 10 m air rifle, with a total score of 390 points. Nearly a week later, Hongprasert competed for her second event, 50 m rifle 3 positions, where she was able to shoot 191 targets in a prone position, 185 in standing, and 190 in kneeling, for a total score of 565 points, finishing only in forty-first place.

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Sasithorn Hongprasert Wikipedia