Pawina Thongsuk
Template:Short description Template:Infobox sportsperson Template:Infobox officeholder Pawina Thongsuk (born April 18, 1979 in Sikhoraphum, Surin) is a Thai weightlifter. She is a Captain in the Royal Thai Army. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, she won an Olympic gold medal with 122.5 kg snatching and 272.5 kg total in the 75 kg category.<ref name="IWF results" /> In 2005, she won the World Championship in the 63 kg category.<ref name="IWF results">Template:Cite web</ref>
In the 2006 Asian Games in Doha she won the gold, as well as set a new world record for the 63 kg women's weight class with a clean and jerk of 142 kg.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Weightlifting career - personal best lifts
- Clean and Jerk: 155.0 kg
- Snatch: 122.5 kg
- Total: 272.5 kg
- Olympic (full) Front Squat: 190.0 kg approx.
- (Full) Back Squat: 222.5 kg approx.
Notes and references
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- 1979 births
- Living people
- Thai female weightlifters
- Olympic weightlifters for Thailand
- Weightlifters at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Weightlifters at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Thailand
- World record setters in weightlifting
- Olympic medalists in weightlifting
- Asian Games gold medalists in weightlifting
- Asian Games silver medalists in weightlifting
- Weightlifters at the 1998 Asian Games
- Weightlifters at the 2002 Asian Games
- Weightlifters at the 2006 Asian Games
- Sportspeople from Surin province
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Asian Games silver medalists for Thailand
- Asian Games weightlifters for Thailand
- Asian Games gold medalists for Thailand
- Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games
- SEA Games silver medalists for Thailand
- SEA Games gold medalists for Thailand
- SEA Games medalists in weightlifting
- Royal Thai Army personnel
- Competitors at the 2001 SEA Games
- World Weightlifting Championships medalists
- 20th-century Thai sportswomen
- 21st-century Thai sportswomen