Kaeo Pongprayoon

Career

Pongprayoons first drew attention to himself, in which he won the silver medal in the paper weight ( - 45kg ) at the 2001 Southeast Asian Championships in Kuala Lumpur. In 2003 he won at the same championships in Hanoi the gold medal in 2005 in Bacolod and the bronze medal in 2007 in Korat gold medal each in paper weight. After Pongprayoon had won in Bangkok in 2009 the King's Cup, he was nominated for the Asian Championships in Zhuhai. In this he took after victories against Li Jiazhao, China ( 5-4 ), Ri Chung Il, North Korea ( 4-1) and Nanao Singh, India ( 9:8 ) the gold medal in the light flyweight. At the world championships in the same year in Milan, he thus went as the reigning Asian champions at the start, but had to after victories against Adlet Kapezov, Kazakhstan ( 14:4 ) and Nanao Singh, India ( 16:4 ) in the second round of the Spaniard Kelvin de la Nieve hit enter ( 3:9 ). At the end of the year he won in Vientiane conclude with the Southeast Asian Championships in flyweight.

2010 Pongprayoon won the King 's Cup in Bangkok and took second place at the Popenchenko Memorial in Moscow and in 2011 he was second in the Konstantin Korotkov Memorial in Khabarovsk. With this success in the back he took in the same year in Baku at the world championships, and came upon this after victories against Hamza Touba, Germany ( 14:8 ) and Salman Alisade, Azerbaijan ( 23:8 ) in the quarterfinals. In this he lost indeed against the Olympic champion in 2008 and world champion in 2005 and 2007 (after this championship by 2011) Zhou Shiming, China ( 8:14 ), but could be for the 2012 Olympic Games in London qualify. In 2011, he won again the championships Southeast Asia, this time in Palembang. When the Olympic test competitions in London in the same year he finished third after a semi-final defeat against Birschan Schaqypow, Kazakhstan ( 8:15 ).

At the Olympic Games in 2012 Pongprayoon reached after victories over Mohammed Flissi, Algeria ( 19:11 ), Carlos Quipo, Ecuador (16:10 ), Alexander Alexandrov, Bulgaria ( 16:10), and in the semi-finals just over David Hajrapetjan, Russia ( 13:12 ), the final, which he, however, against the defending champion Zhou Shiming, China ( 13:10 ), lost and thus won the silver medal.

Others

Kaew Pongprayoon is 1.55 m tall.