Thailand at the Olympics
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| NOC | National Olympic Committee of Thailand | ||||||||
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Thailand first participated at the Olympic Games in 1952, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since then, except when they participated in the US-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics. Thailand has also participated in the Winter Olympic Games since 2002.
Thailand won its first medal at the 1976 Games in Montreal, when boxer Payao Poontarat took home a bronze in the Men's Light Flyweight category. Thailand's first gold medal would also come in boxing at the 1996 Games in Atlanta, when Somluck Kamsing won the Men's Featherweight category. Since then, Thai athletes have won gold medals at every subsequent Summer Olympics with the exception of the 2012 Games in London, with all its gold medals to date having come in men's boxing and women's weightlifting.
Thai athletes have won a total of 31 medals. Thailand's most successful Games to date were the 2004 Games in Athens, where they won eight medals, three of them were gold.
The National Olympic Committee for Thailand was created in 1948 and recognized in 1950.
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