Pen-Ek Karaket
Pen-Ek Karaket 
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| Birthday: | March 18, 1990 | |||||||||||||||
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Pen-Ek Karaket (born March 18, 1990 ) is a Thai Taekwondoin . It starts in the weight class up to 58 kilograms.
Karaket played his first international title fights at the Junior Asian Championships in Vietnam in 2006 . He won the title in the class up to 51 kilograms. His breakthrough in the adult sector came in 2010. He won silver in the class up to 58 kg at the Asian Games in Guangzhou and gold at the Asian Championships in Astana . He faced Wei Chen-yang in both finals . At his first World Cup in Gyeongju in 2011 , he reached the round of 16. At the international Olympic qualification competition in Baku , Karaket won the final of the class up to 58 kilograms against Yulis Mercedes and secured participation in the 2012 Olympic Games in London . He was one of the biggest Thai medal hopes for the Games, but lost to Óscar Muñoz in the battle for the bronze medal.
Karaket is studying architecture in Bangkok .
Web links
- Pen-Ek Karaket on the TaekwondoData.com website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Second is not enough for Pen-ek. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on July 5, 2012 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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| SURNAME | Karaket, Pen-Ek |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Thai Taekwondoin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 18, 1990 |