Wuttichai Masuk

Wuttichai Masuk medal table
Boxing
Thailand
World championships
bronze	2015	Light welterweight
Asian Games
bronze	2010	Light welterweight
gold	2014	Light welterweight
bronze	2018	Light welterweight
Southeast Asian Games
bronze	2009	Featherweight
gold	2013	Light welterweight
gold	2015	Light welterweight
gold	2017	Light welterweight
Asian Championships
gold	2009	Featherweight
gold	2015	Light welterweight

Wuttichai Masuk ( Thai วุฒิ ชัย มา สุข ; born March 16, 1990 in Buri Ram (province) ) is a Thai light welterweight amateur boxer .

Boxing career

Wuttichai is one of the best boxers in Asia. He won the 2009 Asian Championships in Zhuhai , the 2013 Southeast Asian Games in Naypyidaw , the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon , the 2015 Southeast Asian Games in Singapore , the 2015 Asian Championships in Bangkok and the 2017 Southeast Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur . He also won a bronze medal at the Southeast Asian Games in Vientiane in 2009, a bronze medal at the Asian Games in Guangzhou in 2010 and a bronze medal at the Asian Games in Jakarta in 2018 .

He also boxed for the Bangkok Elephants in the World Series of Boxing and won international tournaments in Thailand, Kazakhstan and Taiwan. At world championships he could not reach the medal ranks until 2015. He lost to David Joyce in Milan in 2009 , to Zdeněk Chládek in Baku in 2011 and to Evaldas Petrauskas in Almaty in 2013 .

At the 2015 World Championships in Doha , he finally won a bronze medal after only being eliminated in the semifinals against Fazliddin Gʻoibnazarov . He also qualified for the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil, where he was eliminated in the round of 16 against Gary Antuanne Russell.

At the 2019 World Championships in Yekaterinburg , he was eliminated from Abylaichan Shuissipov before reaching the medal ranks .

Web links

• Profile at Asia Boxing ( Memento from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
• Profile at Incheon 2014

Note on Thai names : This article addresses people by their first name.