Career
He qualified for the Athens Games by ending up in first place in the 2nd AIBA Asian 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Karachi, Pakistan. In the final he defeated India"s Diwakar Prasad. In 2005 he competed for Thailand at the Boxing World Cup in Moscow, Russia, losing both his matches in the preliminary round.
At the world 2007 he was upset by Hungarian David Oltvanyi 9:10 in an early round.
Olympic results
2004 (as a bantamweight)
Defeated Kim Won-Il (South of Korea) Royal Society of Chemistry 3 (1:47)
Defeated Khavazhi Khatsigov (Belarus) 33-18
Defeated Nestor Bolum (Nigeria) 29-14
Defeated Aghasi Mammadov (Azerbaijan) 27-19
Lost to Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz (Cuba) 13-22
2008 (as a bantamweight)
1st round bye
Defeated Vittorio Parrinello (Italy) 12-1
Lost to Yankiel León (Cuba) 2-10
World Amateur Championships results
2007 (as a bantamweight)
Defeated Joan Tipon (Philippines) 13-5
Lost to David Oltvanyi (Hungary) 9-10
In 2009, Petchkoom was banned from boxing for 3 months after he posed for photos in the gay lifesyle magaizen Stage.
