personSomrak Khamsing
สมรักษ์ คำสิงห์ · somrak khamsing
Thailand's first Olympic gold, and it was at boxing, not at this.
What it is
Born 16 January 1973 in Ban Phai district, Khon Kaen, into a poor family. Won featherweight gold at Atlanta in 1996 — the first Olympic gold medal Thailand had ever won.
The long version
He came out of Isan, out of muay thai, and won the country's first gold in the other code. Then he played Nai Khanom Tom on television the same year.
Inference — that sequence is the whole relationship between the two sports in Thailand. Muay thai is where the fighters are made, western boxing is where the medals are, and the national story is told in muay thai regardless. Muaythai itself did not get full IOC recognition until 20 July 2021, twenty-five years after Somrak's gold.
Connected to
- Nai Khanom Tom Whom he played.
- IFMA The body that got the recognition.
- Isan Where he is from.
Named here by
- Nai Khanom Tom Who played him.
- Isan Khon Kaen.
- IFMA The medal that came twenty-five years earlier.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | สมรักษ์ คำสิงห์ — Wikipedia (th) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- สมรักษ์ คำสิงห์ — Wikipedia (th)
- Muay Thai — Wikipedia (en)
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there