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Saralee Thoungthongkam

Saralee Thungthongkam
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Personal information
Nickname(s) Som ส้ม
Country Thailand
Born 13 June 1979 (1979-06-13) (age 37)
Bangkok, Thailand

Captain Saralee Thungthongkam (born 13 June 1979, Thai: สราลีย์ ทุ่งทองคำ ผู้พัน หรือน.อ.ส้ม; rtgsSarali Thungthongkham) is a badminton player from Thailand. She graduated with a master's degree in communication arts from Bangkok University.

At the 2000 Summer Olympics, she reached the second round of the women's doubles with Sujitra Ekmongkolpaisarn, and the second round of the mixed doubles with Khunakorn Sudhisodhi.

Thungthongkam competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Sathinee Chankrachangwong. They defeated Denyse Julien and Anna Rice of Canada in the first round and Chikako Nakayama and Keiko Yoshimoti of Japan in the second. In the quarterfinals, Thungthongkam and Chankrachangwong lost to Zhang Jiewen and Yang Wei of China 15-2, 15-4.

Thungthongkam also competed in mixed doubles with partner Sudket Prapakamol. They had a bye in the first run and were defeated by Frederik Bergstrom and Johanna Persson of Sweden in the round of 16.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics, she only competed in the mixed doubles, again with Prapakamol. They reached the quarter finals, losing to the Indonesian pair of Nova Widianto and Liliyana Natsir, who went on to win the silver medal.


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