Full name วรพจน์ เพชรขุ้ม Role Boxer Rated at Bantamweight Name Worapoj Petchkoom Club Royal Thai Army | Sport Boxing Martial art Boxing Nationality Thailand Weight 54 kg | |
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Born May 18, 1981 (age 42) ( 1981-05-18 ) Phanom, Surat Thani Olympic medals Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Bantamweight People also search for Aghasi Mammadov, Bahodirjon Sultonov, Guillermo Rigondeaux | ||
Boxing men s 56kg worapoj petchkoom vs zhang jiawei final round
Worapoj Petchkoom (Thai: วรพจน์ เพชรขุ้ม; rtgs: Woraphot Phetkhum; 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 Guillermo Rigondeaux. He qualified for the Athens Games by ending up in first place in the 2nd AIBA Asian 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Karachi, Pakistan. In the final he defeated India's Diwakar Prasad.
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- Boxing men s 56kg worapoj petchkoom vs zhang jiawei final round
- 54 kg guillermo rigondeaux cub vs worapoj petchkoom tai
- Amateur career
- Olympic results
- World Amateur Championships results
- 2009 Ban
- References
54 kg guillermo rigondeaux cub vs worapoj petchkoom tai
Amateur career
In 2005 he competed for Thailand at the Boxing World Cup in Moscow, Russia, 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)
2008 (as a bantamweight)
World Amateur Championships results
2007 (as a bantamweight)
2009 Ban
In 2009, Petchkoom was banned from boxing for 3 months after he posed for photos in the gay lifestyle magazine Stage.