TAEKWONDO star Panipak “Tennis” Wongpattanakit, Thailand's sporting queen, is a triple big-time winner now.
She struck gold at the Tokyo Olympics and has done the double feat with a superb victory at the ongoing Hangzhou Asian Games. For the record, she also won the gold medal at the Asian in 2018.
In Hangzhou, Panipak defeated her Chinese opponent in a controversy-packed final to hand Thailand its first gold medal of the Asiad on Monday. Controversy erupted in the final round after the Chinese fighter took a 6-0 lead and then the score suddenly surged to 23-0. Thailand's head coach, Choi Young-seok protested to the judges and after roughly 15 minutes of review, the score was restored to 6-0. The referee explained the surge had been due to a technical problem.
“It felt like a movie in which I am the leading actress,” the 26-year-old Panipak said with a laugh in an interview on Tuesday after defeating Qing Guo, the Chinese athlete, in 2-1 sets, 7-6, 1-2, 12-9. She secured the gold medal in the women’s taekwondo category up to 49 kg.“I was shocked ... I have never seen anything like this,” she commented about the scoreboard surge.
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