Saisunee Jana leads the Thai women’s fencing team to a bronze medal in the women’s epee event at the 2024 Paralympic Games.
2024 Paralympic Games in Paris, France, wheelchair fencing, women’s epee team, bronze medal match, Thailand vs. host France. The results showed that the Thai women’s fencing team, consisting of Saisunee Jana, a 50-year-old fencer who just made history as the first female fencer in the world to win 3 gold medals in women’s individual wheelchair fencing in a single Paralympics, Apinya Thongdaeng, and Duean Nakprasit, narrowly defeated the host with a score of 45-40 to win the bronze medal. This is the first team gold medal in the history of Thai wheelchair fencing and makes the Thai fencing team win all 4 medals after “Spy” Wisit Kingmanao won a silver medal in the men’s epee Class B, making the Thai wheelchair fencing team at the “Paris 2024” Paralympic Games win 3 gold medals, 1 silver medal, and 1 bronze medal.
Table tennis, men’s singles, Class MS4, final round, “Khod” Wanchai Chaiw
ut, a young Thai celluloid volleyball player, met Kim Yong Gun from South Korea. The result was that Wanchai could not resist and lost narrowly 2-3 games 11-6, 9-11, 7-11, 11-9 and 5-11, winning the silver medal, which is considered the second medal in the Paralympic Games “Paris 2024” for him after winning 1 bronze medal in the men’s doubles, Class MD8, making the Thai table tennis team collect 9 medals.
After winning the silver medal, Wanchai Chaiwat admitted that he felt a bit pressured and tense because he was too focused, but he was very proud of himself for winning his first medal after competing for the fourth time.
Women’s 200m T47 Class Final “Um” Sasiravan Intachote, the Thai sprinter, showed excellent form after sprinting to reach the finish line in 3rd place, successfully winning the bronze medal with a time of 25.20 seconds, which is also her best time of the season. Gold medal went to Anna Grimaldi from New Zealand with a time of 24.72 seconds, and silver medal went to Brittnee Mason from the
United States with a time of 25.18 seconds.
Lt. Col. Nayanop Bhirombhakdi, president of the Paralympic Committee of Thailand, was satisfied with the overall performance of Thai athletes at this year’s Paralympic Games, both old and new athletes.
Summary of the performance of the Thai national Paralympic athletes: they have won 6 gold medals, 11 silver medals, 13 bronze medals, ranking 19th in the medal table. This is the best performance in the history of the Thai national Paralympic athletes since they competed in the previous 9 Paralympic Games. China came in first place with 94 gold medals, 73 silver medals, and 49 bronze medals. The United Kingdom came in second with 47 gold medals, and the United States came in third with 36 gold medals.
Source: Thai News Agency