Interview with the President of the Thailand Boxing Association Mr. Pichai Chunhavajira

Mr. Pichai Chunhavajira is the President of the Thailand Boxing Association, the Vice-President of the Asian Boxing Confederation and also the Vice-President of the Thailand National Olympic Committee. He was following the ASBC Asian Confederation Youth Boxing Championships in Bangkok from the opening and checked the performance of the Thai youth boxers.
Thailand Boxing Association and their whole staff worked hard in the preparations of the event and also in the competition period to make a successful and memorable ASBC Asian Confederation Youth Boxing Championships.
Mr. Pichai Chunhavajira is proud of Thailand’s development, their efforts to host more international competitions and lead the Southeast Asian boxing power to the next golden era in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Mr. Pichai Chunhavajira answered our questions in the venue of the ASBC Asian Confederation Youth Boxing Championships.
“I hope all of the participants, guests, officials and spectators enjoyed the ASBC Asian Confederation Youth Boxing Championships in Bangkok. We were trying to work on it hard to get good image from Thailand.
We have got professional team who could arrange everything during the preparations to the competition. Luckily there were not any difficulties before the competition period. Everything went according our plans and we tried to solve all issues in time.
We had three finalists in the ASBC Asian Confederation Youth Boxing Championships in Bangkok which is a good result. We are just behind Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan which are the top nations also in the world. I am satisfied with the performance of the team however we did not get finally any title. My favourite Thai boxer here was Pluem Wangkhlaklang who is a great future hope at the bantamweight (56kg).
The 2018 edition of the ASBC Asian Confederation Youth Boxing Championships will be more than important for us and we will be bidding to that event as well to host it in Bangkok but in our National Arena. The 2018 ASBC Asian Confederation Youth Boxing Championships will be the qualification event for the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games and our youth team could be even stronger next year.
I will be travelling to the AIBA Executive Committee Meeting to Moscow after the ASBC Asian Confederation Youth Boxing Championships to discuss some important issues. We are planning to bid for next year’s AIBA Congress and takes it to Bangkok.
We are expecting from our team 4-5 quota places in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and among them one could be gold medallist in Japan,” said Mr. Pichai Chunhavajira in the venue of the ASBC Asian Confederation Youth Boxing Championships.