Thailand won one gold and one bronze medals at the Tokyo Olympics which ended on Sunday and the country’s sporting authorities are looking forward to a better performance at Paris 2004.
The national heroes are taekwondo exponent Panipak Wongpattanakit who took gold in the women’s 49kg division and boxer Sudaporn Seesondee who claimed bronze in the women’s 60kg class.
Both wrote new chapters in Thailand’s sporting history books — Panipak, 23, is the Kingdom’s first-ever Olympic champion in taekwondo and Sudaporn, 29, is the country’s first-ever female boxer to win an Olympic medal.
Thailand’s sporting bosses breathed a sigh of relief after Panipak was successful early at Tokyo 2020.
The Surat Thani native…
