Dulyarit Phuangthong
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Dulyarit Phuangthong | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Goh | ||||||||||||||||||
| National team |
 Thailand
|
||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
31 December 1977 Bangkok, Thailand |
||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Backstroke, butterfly, medley | ||||||||||||||||||
|
Medal record
|
|||||||||||||||||||
Dulyarit "Goh" Phuangthong (Thai: ดุลยฤทธิ์ พวงทอง; born December 31, 1977; nickname: 'Goh') is a Thai former professional swimmer who specialized in backstroke, butterfly and individual medley events. He is a two-time Olympian (1996 and 2000), a finalist in the 100m backstroke at the 2002 Asian Games, and a multiple-time medalist at the Southeast Asian Games since his debut in 1995.
Phuangthong's Olympic debut came at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. There he finished thirty-eighth in the 100m backstroke (58.32), and twenty-sixth in the 200m backstroke (2:05.26). Phuangthong also teamed up with Torlarp Sethsothorn, Ratapong Sirisanont, and Niti Intharapichai in the 4×100m medley relay. Leading off the backstroke leg in heat four, Phuangthong recorded a time of 59.13, but the Thais settled for sixth place and twenty-second overall in a final time of 3:56.80.
At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Phuangthong decided to drop half of his backstroke double, and experiment with the 200m butterfly. He posted FINA B-standards of 58.48 (100m backstroke) and 2:03.11 (200m butterfly) from the Southeast Asian Games in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. On the second day of the Games, Phuangthong placed forty-third in the 100m backstroke. Swimming in heat two, he raced to third place in a matching entry time of 58.48, just a 1.36-second deficit behind winner Sung Min of South Korea. The following day, in the 200m butterfly, Phuangthong challenged seven other swimmers in the same heat, including 19-year-olds Zoran Lazarovski of Macedonia and Juan Pablo Valdivieso of Peru. He held off Croatia's Lovrenco Franičević to earn a fifth spot and thirty-eighth overall in 2:04.15.
...
Wikipedia