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Manus Boonjumnong Personal information Full name มนัส บุญจำนงค์ Nationality 
ThailandBorn June 23, 1980
RatchaburiHeight 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Weight 64 kg (140 lb) Sport Sport Boxing Rated at Light Welterweight Club Royal Thai Army Medal record Men's Boxing Competitor for ThailandOlympic Games Gold 2004 Athens Light Welterweight Silver 2008 Beijing Light Welterweight World Amateur Championships Bronze 2003 Bangkok Light Welterweight Asian Games Gold 2006 Doha Light Welterweight Manus Boonjumnong (Thai: มนัส บุญจำนงค์, born June 23, 1980) is a Thai boxer who won the Olympics at Light Welterweight (60–64 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics . He is the brother of Non Boonjumnong.
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Amateur career
At the 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships in his home country Bangkok, the light-footed counterpuncher won the bronze medal losing to Russian Alexander Maletin.
In 2006 he made a successful comeback when he was crowned Asian champion. He narrowly defeated reigning 2005 world champion Serik Sapiyev at the tournament although he was knocked down.
In Chicago at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships he was upset early against Japanese Masatsugu Kawachi.
Olympics 2004
Boonjumnong qualified for the Athens Games by ending up in first place at the 1st AIBA Asian 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Guangzhou, PR China. In the final he defeated Kazakhstan's Nurzhan Karimzhanov. In Athens he beat reigning world champion Willy Blain and the Cuban Yudel Johnson in the final and won gold.
2004 Olympic Results- Defeated Spyridon Ioannidis (Greece) 28:16
- Defeated Romeo Brin (Philippines) 29:15
- Defeated Willy Blain (France) 20:8
- Defeated Ionut Gheorghe (Romania) 30:9
- Defeated Yudel Johnson (Cuba) 17:11
Olympics 2008
- Defeated Masatsugu Kawachi (Japan) 8:1
- Defeated Serik Sapiyev (Kazakhstan) 7:5
- Defeated Roniel Iglesias Sotolongo (Cuba) 10:5
- Lost to Manuel Félix Díaz (Dominican Rep.) 12:4[1][2]
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References
Olympic Boxing Champions in Men's Light Welterweight 1952–2000: 60–63.5 kg, 2004-2008: 60-64 kg1952: Charles Adkins (USA) • 1956: Vladimir Yengibaryan (URS) • 1960: Bohumil Němeček (TCH) • 1964–1968: Jerzy Kulej (POL) • 1972: Ray Seales (USA) • 1976: Ray Leonard (USA) • 1980: Patrizio Oliva (ITA) • 1984: Jerry Page (USA) • 1988: Vyacheslav Yanovskiy (URS) • 1992–1996: Héctor Vinent (CUB) • 2000: Mahammatkodir Abdoollayev (UZB) • 2004: Manus Boonjumnong (THA) • 2008: Manuel Félix Díaz (DOM)
Categories:- 1980 births
- Living people
- Thai boxers
- Light-welterweight boxers
- Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers of Thailand
- Olympic gold medalists for Thailand
- Olympic silver medalists for Thailand
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Asian Games medalists in boxing
- Asian boxing biography stubs
- Thai sportspeople stubs
- Asian Olympic medalist stubs
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