Worapoj Petchkoom

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Worapoj Petchkoom
Personal information
Full name วรพจน์ เพชรขุ้ม
Nationality  Thailand
Born (1981-05-18) May 18, 1981 (age 43)
Phanom, Surat Thani
Weight 54 kg (119 lb)
Sport
Sport Boxing
Rated at Bantamweight
Club Royal Thai Army

Worapoj Petchkoom (born May 18, 1981, Thai: วรพจน์ เพชรขุ้ม) 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.

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 lifesyle magaizen Stage.[1]

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