Jai Angsuthasawit

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Jai Angsuthasawit Road cycling
Jai Angsuthasawit (2020)
Jai Angsuthasawit (2020)
To person
Date of birth February 16, 1995
nation ThailandThailand Thailand Australia
AustraliaAustralia 
discipline Train (short term)
Societies)
Kilkenny Cycling Club, Adelaide
Most important successes
Asian Games
2018 gold - Keirin
Last updated: September 6, 2018

Jai Angsuthasawit (born February 16, 1995 in Adelaide , Australia ) is an Australian- Thai cyclist who competes in short-term races on the track .

Athletic career

In 2013, Jai Angsuthasawit became Junior World Champion in team sprint together with the two Australians Patrick Constable and Alexander Radzikiewicz . In 2016 he won the Australian title in the elite team sprint, together with Constable and Matthew Glaetzer .

In 2017 Angsuthasawit, who has both an Australian and a Thai passport, decided to start for the Thai cycling association. From spring 2018 he was trained by the two-time Asian champion Josiah Ng from Malaysia . At the Asian Games in Jakarta in August of that year , he won the Keirin. In the final, he surprisingly beat the favored Japanese Yudai Nitta and Ng's compatriot and former long-term rival Azizulhasni Awang . He was the first Thai to win a gold medal in track cycling at the Asian Games.

successes

train

2013
2016
2018
2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Azidan Nahar: Josiah's Jai denies Pocket Rocketman Asiad gold. In: nst.com.my. August 31, 2018, accessed September 7, 2018 .