Nootcharin Sukkhongdumnoen

Nootcharin Sukkhongdumnoen

Personal information
Full name	Nootcharin Sukkhongdumnoen
Nationality	Thailand
Born	(1978-02-10) 10 February 1978 Bangkok, Thailand
Height
Weight	57 kg (126 lb)
Sport
Sport	Taekwondo
Event(s)	57 kg
Medal record Women's taekwondo Representing Thailand Asian Games 1998 Bangkok 51 kg Asian Championships 1998 Ho Chi Minh 55 kg World Championships 2003 Garmisch 55 kg

Nootcharin Sukkhongdumnoen (Thai: นุชจรินทร์ สุขคงดำเนิน; born February 10, 1978 in Bangkok) is a Thai taekwondo practitioner, who competed in the women's featherweight category. She claimed the silver medal in the 51-kg division at the 1998 Asian Games in her native Bangkok, retrieved a bronze at the 2003 World Taekwondo Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, and later attained a fifth-place finish in the 58-kg category at the 2004 Summer Olympics, representing her nation Thailand.

Sukkhongdumnoen qualified for the Thai squad in the women's featherweight class (57 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by defeating Uzbekistan's Irina Kaydashova for the top spot and securing a berth from the Asian Olympic Qualifying Tournament in her native Bangkok. Sukkhongdumnoen had to deal with tough crowds at the start of the tournament, as she upset the Greek favorite and two-time Olympian Areti Athanasopoulou on the marginal judging decision, resulting to a 6–6 draw and a storming protest from the opposition. Following her surprising victory in the opening round, Sukkhongdumnoen defied odds to pummel Chinese Taipei's Chi Shu-ju in the quarterfinals by a narrow 2–1 margin, before she fell short on the referee's decision to U.S. taekwondo neophyte and eventual silver medalist Nia Abdallah in the semifinals. When Abdallah progressed to the final, Sukkhongdumnoen gave herself a chance for the Olympic bronze medal in the repechage, but dropped abruptly to a 3–6 decision against Spain's Sonia Reyes in her first playoff, relegating Sukkhongdumnoen to fifth position.

External links

• Profile – Taekwondo Data