Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon

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Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon presents the Olympic gold medal she won in Beijing in August 2008

Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon ( Thai : ประภา วดีเจริญ รัตน ธารากูล , previous name Chanpim Kantatian - จันทร์ พิมพ์ กันทะ เตียน ; born May 29, 1984 in Nakhon Sawan Province , northern Thailand ) is a Thai weightlifter .

Career

Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon competes in the class up to 53 kg. Since the early 2000s, she has been among the world's best in her weight class. In 2003 she won at the World Championships in Vancouver with 97.5 kg silver in the snatch and in the jerk with 120.0 kg and in the overall standings with 217.5 kg bronze. In 2005, the gold medal in snatching (98 kg) as well as the silver medal in pushing (125 kg) and the combination (223 kg) were added in Doha . She did not have that great success at the 2007 World Cup in Chiang Mai , where she narrowly missed medals in all three competitions as fourth. At the 2007 Asian Championships in Tai'an , Jaroenrattanatarakoon won gold in snatching and silver in pushing and combination. Two years earlier, the Thai woman won all three titles in Dubai .

Prapawadee achieved the greatest success of her career at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing . There she won the gold medal in her weight class with the Olympic record of 221 kg, ahead of the South Korean Jinhee Joon . In pushing she set another Olympic record with 126 kg, but medals are only awarded in the Olympic Games in combination.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AFP : Olympics: Great wall of China blocks rivals' paths to weightlifting gold ( English ) August 5, 2008. Archived from the original on August 7, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 10, 2008. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / au.sports.yahoo.com
  2. ↑ Athlete Biography ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) at results.beijing2008.cn (English)
Note on Thai names : This article addresses people by their first name.
personal data
SURNAME Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chanpim cantatian; ประภา วดี เจริญ รัตน ธารา กูล (th); จันทร์ พิมพ์ กันทะ เตียน (th)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION thai weightlifter
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Nakhon Sawan (Province) , Northern Thailand