Suban Pannon

Career

He claimed the bronze medal in the same division one year earlier, at the 1999 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Houston, Texas. He participated in the 2000 Summer Olympics for his native Southeast Asian country. There he was beaten in the second round of the light flyweight (– 48 kg) division by Ukraine"s Valeriy Sydorenko.

At the 2002 Asian Games he medaled again.

Pannon qualified for the Athens Games by ending up in second place at the 1st AIBA Asian 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Guangzhou, Puerto Rico China. In the final he lost to Tajikistan"s Sherali Dostiev.

Achievements

• Pannon won the 1998 Asian Games in the men"s light flyweight division. He also participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics, but was stopped in the second round by Cuba"s eventual winner Yan Bhartelemy. In 2005 Pannon competed for Thailand at the Boxing World Cup in Moscow, Russia, with one win and one loss. He competed at the 2006 Asian Games in the Light Flyweight (-48 kg) division and won the silver medal in a lost match against China"s Zou Shiming 1-11.