Marcial will join Petecio and Philippines’ first Olympic gold medalist Hidilyn Diaz, who is also from Zamboanga, in bringing home the elusive mints from sports’ biggest stage. With Filipina boxer Nesthy Petecio in the women’s featherweight final, this will be the first time Philippine boxing will be bringing home multiple Olympic medals. Marcial, a native of Zamboanga City, will face reigning European champion Oleksandr Khyzhniak of Ukraine in the semifinal on Thursday, August 5, 2:03 pm, Philippine time. #UnitedByEmotion | #StrongerTogether | #Olympics /hs5rMZykRR- #Tokyo2020 August 1, 2021 Hopefully, the country's athletes will bounce back with the return of the weightlifting squad in Paris 2024.Eumir Marcial🇵🇭 lands a picture-perfect right and is through the semi-finals in the men's middleweight category at #Tokyo2020 with a stunning KO. Several factors played a significant role in the outcome. Thailand finished at 59th place in the medal table in Tokyo, and third in Asean behind Indonesia (one gold, one silver, three bronzes) and the Philippines (one gold, two silvers and one bronze).
Before this year's Games, Thai men had won at least one medal in every Olympics since Montreal 1976, when Payao Poontarat won the boxing light-flyweight bronze. This Games also marked the first time in 45 years that Thailand's male athletes finished without a single medal. Nevertheless, badminton and golf failed to live up to expectations for Thailand, which boasts a world-class mixed doubles pair and star players on the LPGA Tour. Other athletes who deserved applause include Suthasini Sawettabut, the first Thai woman to reach the fourth round in the table tennis singles, and Ratchanok Inthanon who lost a heart-breaking quarter-final to world No 1 Tai Tzu Ying of Taiwan in one of the best badminton showdowns at this Olympics. However, in Tokyo they won the hearts of Thai fans nationwide with courageous performances despite losing against high-class rivals, especially Chatchai-Decha Butdee against three-time world champion Lazaro Alvarez of Cuba in the men's featherweight quarter-finals, and Juthamas Jitpong against European Games gold medalist Buse Naz Cakiroglu of Turkey in the women's flyweight quarter-finals. The team also finished the 2016 Rio Games empty-handed and have yet to produce a gold since Somjit Jongjohor won the Olympic title in Beijing 13 years ago. Thailand's boxing team boast a record of four golds, four silvers and seven bronzes in Olympic competition but they showed signs of decline in the Tokyo Games. Still, her fourth-place finish marked Thailand's best-ever attempt in the Olympic shooting competition by far. An overwhelming underdog among her high-profile competitors in the final four, the 26-year-old Thai missed just one target that would have won her the bronze. Shooter Isarapa Imprasertsuk, then ranked just 32nd in the world, came out of nowhere to threaten the medal places before eventually settling for fourth place in the women's skeet event. However, several other Thai athletes deserved high acclaim despite not contributing a medal, after they exceeded all expectations with dazzling performances. But only the Korean martial art offered Thailand a path to the top of the podium. However, the outcome of the Thai campaign in Tokyo came as no surprise after the weightlifting team, which had been tipped for glory following its two golds in the 2016 Games, was barred from international events after Thai lifters tested positive for banned substances at the 2019 World Championships.Īccording to the Sports Authority of Thailand, taekwondo, badminton, golf and boxing were the potential sources of gold for Thai athletes in Tokyo. Two medals are in fact the lowest Olympic total the country has produced for 25 years, since the 1996 Atlanta Games when Thailand ended their campaign with the same result – one gold and one bronze.
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