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Sporting event delegation
Thailand
first participated at the
Olympic Games
in 1952, and has sent athletes to compete in every
Summer Olympic Games
since then, except when they participated in the
US-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics
. Thailand has also participated in the
Winter Olympic Games
since 2002.
Thailand won its first medal at the
1976 Games
in
Montreal
, when
boxer
Payao Poontarat
took home a bronze in the
Men's Light Flyweight
category. Thailand's first gold medal would also come in boxing at the
1996 Games
in
Atlanta
, when
Somluck Kamsing
won the
Men's Featherweight
category. Since then, Thai athletes have won gold medals at every subsequent Summer Olympics with the exception of the
2012 Games
in
London
, with all its gold medals to date having come in men's boxing, women's
weightlifting
and women’s
taekwondo
.
The
National Olympic Committee
for Thailand was created in 1948 and recognized in 1950.
As of 2021, Thai athletes have won a total of 35 medals, 14 in
weightlifting
, 15 in
boxing
and 6 in
taekwondo
. Among countries in
Southeast Asia
, Thailand ranks first in terms of the number of gold medals (10), and second in the number of overall medals (35), only behind Indonesia which has 37 medals. Thailand's most successful Games to date were the
2004 Games
in
Athens
, where they won eight medals, of which three of them were gold.
The country's most recent gold medalist is
Panipak Wongpattanakit
, who earned her medal in the
women's 49kg event in taekwondo
.
Medals
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Medals by Summer Games
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Medals by Winter Games
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Medals by Summer Sport
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Leading in that sport
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List of medalists
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Medals by individual
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According to official data of the
International Olympic Committee
. This is a list of people who have won two or more Olympic medals for Thailand.
- People in bold
are still active competitors
Flag bearers
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Olympic participants
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Summer Olympics
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Winter Olympics
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Milestones
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- In 2002 and 2006, Thailand qualified its first Winter Olympian cross country skier, and first Winter Olympian,
Prawat Nagvajara
.
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- In 2014, Thailand qualified its first Winter Olympian alpine skier,
Kanes Sucharitakul
.
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It then added the first female Winter Olympian for the country,
Vanessa Vanakorn
(Vanessa-Mae), doubling the size of the previous largest delegation to a Winter Games.
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See also
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- Olympics
- Paralympic
- Asian Games
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Thailand did not participate in 1980 due to a
boycott
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