Wanida Boonwan

Wanida Boonwan
nation	Thailand
birthday	30th August 1986 (age 34)
place of birth	Ubon Ratchathani , Thailand
size	164 cm
Weight	53 kg
Career
discipline	high jump
Best performance	1.92 m
status	active
Medal table
Indoor Asian Games 0 × 0 × 1 × Southeast Asian Games 2 × 3 × 1 ×
Indoor Asian Games bronze Hanoi 2009 1.91 m  Southeast Asian Games bronze Nakhon Ratchasima 2007 1.84 m silver Vientiane 2009 1.88 m silver Palembang 2011 1.87 m silver Naypyidaw 2013 1.80 m gold Singapore 2015 1.85 m gold Capas 2019 1.81 m
last change: June 30, 2020

Wanida Boonwan ( Thai วนิดา บุญ วร ร ณ์ ; born August 30, 1986 in Ubon Ratchathani ) is a Thai high jumper .

Life

Wanida Boonwan grew up in Amnat Charoen Province . Her family works in agriculture.

successes

Wanida Boonwan gained her first international experience at the Junior Asian Championships in Bangkok in 2002 , where she finished fifth with 1.65 m. In 2007 she took seventh place at the Student World Games in Bangkok with a jump of 1.85 m. At the Indoor Asian Games in Macau she was fifth with 1.80 m and won the bronze medal behind the Vietnamese Bùi Thị Nhung and her compatriot Noengrothai Chaipetch at the Southeast Asian Games in Nakhon Ratchasima with a height of 1.84 m . Two years later won the silver medal behind Chaipetch at the Games in Vientiane with 1.88. In addition, she won the bronze medal at the Indoor Asian Games in Hanoi with 1.91 m behind the Uzbek Nadiya Dusanova and Chaipetch. In 2010 she finished seventh at the Asian Games in Guangzhou with 1.84 m. In 2011 she was sixth at the Asian Championships in Kobe with 1.85 m and then seventh at the Universiade in Shenzhen , where she jumped 1.86 m. She took part in the World Championships in Daegu , but did not reach the final there with 1.85 m. At the Southeast Asian Games in Palembang, however, she won the silver medal behind the Vietnamese Dương Thị Việt Anh with 1.87 m .

At the 2012 Olympic Games in London , she failed with 1.80 m in qualification and was 29th of 35 participants. The following year she was eighth at the Asian Championships in Pune with a skipped 1.81 m and again won the silver medal behind the Vietnamese Dương at the Southeast Asian Games in Naypyidaw with 1.80 m. A year later she finished fifth at the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, with a jump of 1.85 m. In 2015 she won the Southeast Asian Games in Singapore for the first time with a height of 1.85 m. Two years later she finished fifth at the Asian Championships in Bhubaneswar with 1.80 m and then reached fourth place at the Southeast Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur with 1.83 m. At the beginning of September at the Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games in Ashgabat with 1.79 m, she just missed a medal again in fourth place. In 2018 she again took part in the Asian Games in Jakarta and finished ninth there with 1.75 m. The following year she won again at the Southeast Asian Games in Capas with a height of 1.81 m.

Her best performance is 1.92 m, which she jumped on May 26, 2011 in Kunshan at the Asian Grand Prix. It was 1 cm below the Thai record that Noengrothai Chaipetch had jumped at the 2009 Southeast Asian Games.

Personal best

• High jump (open air): 1.92 m, May 26, 2011 in Kunshan
  • High jump (hall): 1.91 m, October 31, 2010 in Hanoi
• Heptathlon: 4354 points, January 28, 2010 in Bangkok

Web links

• Wanida boonwan in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ According to the website of the Olympic Games 2012 1.64 m, according to an article in the daily Bangkok Post from July 16, 2012 1.63 m, according to Olympedia as of 2020 1.65 m.
2. ↑ Making an Olympic Debut . Article from July 16, 2012 in the daily newspaper Bangkok Post (English)
3. ↑ Wanida Boonwan on sports-reference.com (English)