Yaowapa Boorapolchai
![]() | This article needs additional citations for verification. (November 2021) |
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Native name | เยาวภา บุรพลชัย | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Bangkok, Thailand | September 6, 1984||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country | ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Taekwondo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Flyweight (-49 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Choi Young-Seok | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
|
Yaowapa Boorapolchai (Thai: เยาวภา บุรพลชัย; RTGS: Yaowapha Buraphonchai; born September 6, 1984 at Bangkok) is a Thai taekwondo athlete who was the bronze medalist in the women's under 49 kg event at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She graduate Bachelor of Arts Historical major from Thammasat University.
She started competing in 2002. In the first round of the Women's Under 49 kg event she defeated Brigitte Yague of Spain, and in the quarterfinal was defeated by Yanelis Yuliet Labrada Diaz of Cuba. She defeated Ivett Gonda of Canada and Gladys Alicia Mora Romero of Colombia in the repechage tournament to win the bronze and become the first Thai Olympic medalist outside of boxing and weightlifting.
She won a bronze medal in the Universiade, World Taekwondo Championships, and World Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament in 2003, and a gold in the South East Asian Games in the same year. Many Thais claim that Yaowapa, one of the most popular athletes among Thais, has frequently been victimized by wayward officiating. Besides her loss to Diaz in Athens, she also lost to Lim Su-Jeong, a Korean exponent, in a gold-medal match at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea, and was defeated in the first round at the 2005 South East Asian Games in the Philippines by Loraine Lorelie Catalan, a Filipino exponent. Thai officials have claimed she was cheated by the judges in these matches, especially the matches involving exponents from the host nation.
External links[]
- Yaowapa Boorapolchai at TaekwondoData.com
- Yaowapa Boorapolchai at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Athens 2004 participant profile at the Wayback Machine (archived 2004-09-01)
- 1984 births
- Living people
- Thai female taekwondo practitioners
- Olympic taekwondo practitioners of Thailand
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Thailand
- Asian Games medalists in taekwondo
- Olympic medalists in taekwondo
- Chart Pattana Party (2007) politicians
- Thai sportsperson-politicians
- Thai female fencers
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2002 Asian Games
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2006 Asian Games
- Assumption University (Thailand) alumni
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Bangkok
- Universiade medalists in taekwondo
- Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games
- Asian Games silver medalists for Thailand
- Asian Games bronze medalists for Thailand
- Competitors at the 2003 Southeast Asian Games
- Southeast Asian Games medalists in taekwondo
- Southeast Asian Games gold medalists for Thailand
- Universiade bronze medalists for Thailand
- World Taekwondo Championships medalists
- Asian Taekwondo Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 2003 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 2005 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 2007 Summer Universiade
- Thai sportspeople stubs
- Asian Olympic medalist stubs
- Thai martial arts biography stubs
- Asian taekwondo biography stubs
- Asian fencing biography stubs