Hero of Day7 Finals in Bangkok – Thailand’s Atichai Phoemsap

The Asian Boxing Confederation’s new project the Hero of the Day was published after each competition day during the ASBC Asian Confederation Youth Boxing Championships. Following Mongolia’s super talented Mungunsaran Balsan, Jordan’s No.1 Bader Osman Majed Samreen, Thailand’s Panpatchara Somnuek, Japan’s ASBC Asian Junior Champion Sora Tanaka and Turkmenistan’s Saparmyrat Odayev, the winner of the finals was Thailand’s Atichai Phoemsap.
Thailand’s Atichai Phoemsap was born in the city of Korat on July 7 in 2000 and won his first boxing event still back in 2014 when he claimed gold in their Junior National Championships. He attended in the Tashkent 2015 ASBC Asian Confederation Boxing Championships and also in the St. Petersburg 2015 AIBA Junior World Boxing Championships. Phoemsap did a breakthrough in 2017 when he won the ASEAN Youth Boxing Championships and also the Boxam Youth Tournament in Spain beating top rivals in those international events.
The Thai lightweight (60kg) boxer defeated Afghanistan’s Saiel Amirmohamad, Kazakhstan’s Rakhat Seitzhan and Japan’s Ryunosuke Tsutsumi during his road to the finals. Phoemsap has got one of the best footwork among the youth boxers and he controlled his final against India’s Ankit today. Phoemsap was named as the Best Man Boxer of the ASBC Asian Confederation Youth Boxing Championships in Bangkok and he became the ASBC Hero of the Day.