Thailand is the most experienced team in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games

Besides to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and China, Thailand is the fourth best Asian nation after all qualifications for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Thailand had three boxers in the London 2012 Olympic Games but the country was able to do better in the qualification process of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Finally five Thai athletes qualified for the August’s event and will be representing the country in the boxing tournament of the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Veteran Chatchai Butdee and Saylom Ardee qualified once again after their appearances at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
The boxing tournament of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games will be starting on August 6 where 63 Asians can take part for the medals in Brazil. Among them 5 came from Thailand which is similar performance what the country was able to achieve in the Sydney, Athens and in the Beijing Olympic Games. Thailand hosted the last edition of the ASBC Asian Confederation Boxing Championships in Bangkok which was a new impulse for the country’s boxing life.
Thailand’s first boxer who took the Olympic quota place was Wuttichai Masuk who claimed bronze at the Doha 2015 AIBA World Boxing Championships. Masuk was gold medallist at the Incheon 2014 Asian Games and also at the last edition of the ASBC Asian Confederation Boxing Championships in Bangkok therefore he is among the favourites of the Light Welterweight class (64 kg) in Rio.
London 2012 Olympian Chatchai Butdee was also bronze medallist at the AIBA World Boxing Championships but in Almaty three years ago. Since then he moved up to the Bantamweight class (56 kg) and claimed gold at the last edition of the ASBC Asian Confederation Boxing Championships in Bangkok in the front of the home crowd. The 31-year-old Thai boxer is member of the national team since 2008 and has got enough experiences to get top result in Rio.
Thailand’s professional boxer Beijing 2008 Olympian Amnat Ruenroeng returned to the AIBA competitions in the APB/WSB Olympic Qualification Event in Vargas, Venezuela where he controlled his fights at the Lightweight class (60 kg). The former AIBA World Boxing Championships bronze medallist veteran boxer achieved silver medal in the competition in Vargas and qualified for his second Olympic Games.
Saylom Ardee is the most experienced boxer of the Thai squad who was involved to the national team in 2005. He qualified for the Beijing, London and now for the Rio Olympic Games as well therefore he knows well the atmosphere of the competition. Ardee was silver medallist also at the 2013 ASBC Asian Confederation Boxing Championships in Amman and he was also successful in the recent editions of the Southeast Asian Games.
Thailand’s first ever woman boxer in the Olympic Games will be Peamwilai Laopeam who has been preparing to her last boxing competition. The 33-year-old Women’s Flyweight class (51 kg) boxer was able to get silver medal at the AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan this May which result was enough to get an Olympic spot for Rio. She was competitive rival for Great Britain’s Nicola Adams in the final in Astana and she is planning to do revenge in Rio.