Suriya Prasathinphimai

Suriya Prasathinphimai ( Thai: สุริยา ปราสาท หิน พิมาย; born April 2, 1980 in Nakhon Ratchasima ) is a Thai boxer and kickboxer. Prasathinphimai was silver medalist at the Asian Games in 2002 and bronze medalist of the 2004 Olympic Games and the Asian Championships in 2007.

Career

Kickboxing

In 2000 Prasathinphimai began with the professional kickboxing. He won it against the Japanese Masato. After another victory, he lost in 2001 against Australian John Wayne Parr. In 2003 he won after beating Arslan Magomedov, Russia, Eh Phoutong, Thailand, and Farid Villaume, France, the S1 World Championships. In the S1 World Championships the following year he lost in the first fight against Jean -Charles Skarbowsky, France, which he ended his career as a professional kickboxer.

Boxing

2002 Prasathinphimai denied his first international championships in boxing. In the Asian Games, he reached in the Light Middleweight ( 71kg - ) to Siegen, among others against Sirojiddin Naimov, Uzbekistan (RSC 3 ), the final, which he compared Gennady Golovkin, Kazakhstan (RSC 3 ), lost and thus won the silver medal. The following year he took in the middleweight division at the world championships, but different in the preliminary round against Utkirbek Khaidarov, Uzbekistan ( 21:6 ), from.

In 2004 Prasathinphimai part in the Olympic games in which he reached after victories over Joseph Lubega, Uganda ( 30:21 ), Javid Taghiev, Azerbaijan ( 19:19 ), and Oleg Mashkin, Ukraine ( 28:22 ), the semi-finals, which he lost to Gaidarbek Gaidarbekow.

At the Asian Games in 2006 Prasathinphimai difference in the first fight of due to injury, but a year later he won the bronze medal at the Asian Championships, where he semi-final against Vijender Kumar, India, lost. In 2007, he did not come at the world championships beyond the second round, which he lost to Baqtijar Artajew, Kazakhstan ( 20:7 ). In the same year he won the Southeast Asian Games, was at the tournament but tested positive for the illicit use of resources and as a result he was suspended for one year. Furthermore him the gold medal was revoked.

After this forced break Prasathinphimai took in 2010 at the Asian Games in part, however, different in the first fight against Narmandakh Shinebayar, Mongolia ( 2:1), from. His start at the 2011 World Championships was granted little success. He lost his first fight against Jaba Khocitashvili, Georgia ( 23:11 ).

Muay Thai

2012 denied Prasathinphimai a Muay Thai fight against Chike Lindsay, which he won.