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Payao POONTARAT
Male
(พเยาว์ พูนธรัตน์) Super-Flyweight, Thailand, Pattaya and Bangkok Born: October 18, 1956, Bang Sapan, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand Died: August 13, 2006, Bangkok, Thailand
as anamateur: 1976 Montreal, Canada, Olympic Games light-flyweight bronze medal WPTS 4:1 Remus Cosma, Romania WPTS 3:2 Alexander Tkachenko, USSR WPTS 4:1 Gyorgy Gedo, Hungary LRSC 2 Byong Uk Li, North Korea,PRK
He was the first Thai to win an Olympic medal
Became a Thai policeman with the rank of captain. In 2001 was elected as member of parliament for his home-province
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