Phum-Ai-Un' lost to their opponents and missed out on winning a medal at the 2024 World Youth Taekwondo Championships in South Korea. They revealed that they will return to improve their skills. The 2024 World Junior Taekwondo Championships, 'Chuncheon 2024 World Taekwondo Junior Championships' in Chuncheon, South Korea, yesterday (October 2), had 4 gold medals up for grabs. Thailand sent kickers to compete for medals in 2 categories. Men's 45 kg category, "Jao Phum" Nitiphoom Chaiyotha, a 16-year-old kicker and 2022 World Youth Champion in Bulgaria, started the first round fiercely, defeating Al Muhammed Al Buluchi from Oman 2-0, rounds 12-0,15-2, advancing to the second round to meet Tirmuujon Maruvjonov from Uzbekistan. It turned out that "Jao Phum" was inferior in terms of speed and timing to score, causing him to lose 0-2, rounds 9-21 and 2-15, and was eliminated in the last 32. "Phumi" said after the match that he was still not satisfied with his performance because he was not good at controlling the rhythm and blocking in the second round match against Uzbekistan. He admitted that his opponent was stronger. From now on, he will go back to improve his skills to be better than before because his goal in the future is to be in the senior national team. 46kg Women's "Ai-Un" Aiyarissa Suksawat, the gold medalist of the 2024 Korea Youth Open, narrowly lost to Dora Radek, a female kicker from Croatia, by just 1 point in the deciding round, causing "Ai-Un" to lose 1-2 in rounds 14-6, 4-1, and 9-10, ending her journey in the last 64. After the competition, "Nong Ai-un" said that for her first World Youth competition, she felt excited, but she did her best. She admitted that her opponent was stronger, had accurate kicks, and had very strong legs. From now on, she will go back to practice more seriously for the opportunity to join the national team to compete in other matches. After 2 days of competition, 5 out of 16 Thai youth kickers have competed but have not been able to win any medals. After the competition , 'Coach Chit' Wichit Sittikan, Coach Park Hee Kang and 'Coach Tor' Peerathep Sila-on, coaches of the Thai national Taekwondo team, led the 16 young Thai kickers in intensive training, honing their scoring skills including body and head kicks, to increase agility and physical fitness. The training session took about 1 hour. 'Coach Chit' told all the athletes to be confident, not to be nervous, and to try to do as well as they had practiced. He is confident that the remaining 11 kickers will perform well and win medals. For today's competition program, there is 1 athlete competing in the men's 55 kg category. Thailand is sending "Chai" Phakphong Jitrat, a rising star kicker who won a silver medal at the Korea Open 2024 in July to compete. Source: Thai News Agency

Phum-Ai-Un' lost to their opponents and missed out on winning a medal at the 2024 World Youth Taekwondo Championships in South Korea. They revealed that they will return to improve their skills. The 2024 World Junior Taekwondo Championships, 'Chuncheon 2024 World Taekwondo Junior Championships' in Chuncheon, South Korea, yesterday (October 2), had 4 gold medals up for grabs. Thailand sent kickers to compete for medals in 2 categories. Men's 45 kg category, "Jao Phum" Nitiphoom Chaiyotha, a 16-year-old kicker and 2022 World Youth Champion in Bulgaria, started the first round fiercely, defeating Al Muhammed Al Buluchi from Oman 2-0, rounds 12-0,15-2, advancing to the second round to meet Tirmuujon Maruvjonov from Uzbekistan. It turned out that "Jao Phum" was inferior in terms of speed and timing to score, causing him to lose 0-2, rounds 9-21 and 2-15, and was eliminated in the last 32. "Phumi" said after the match that he was still not satisfied with his performance because he was not good at controlling the rhythm and blocking in the second round match against Uzbekistan. He admitted that his opponent was stronger. From now on, he will go back to improve his skills to be better than before because his goal in the future is to be in the senior national team. 46kg Women's "Ai-Un" Aiyarissa Suksawat, the gold medalist of the 2024 Korea Youth Open, narrowly lost to Dora Radek, a female kicker from Croatia, by just 1 point in the deciding round, causing "Ai-Un" to lose 1-2 in rounds 14-6, 4-1, and 9-10, ending her journey in the last 64. After the competition, "Nong Ai-un" said that for her first World Youth competition, she felt excited, but she did her best. She admitted that her opponent was stronger, had accurate kicks, and had very strong legs. From now on, she will go back to practice more seriously for the opportunity to join the national team to compete in other matches. After 2 days of competition, 5 out of 16 Thai youth kickers have competed but have not been able to win any medals. After the competition , 'Coach Chit' Wichit Sittikan, Coach Park Hee Kang and 'Coach Tor' Peerathep Sila-on, coaches of the Thai national Taekwondo team, led the 16 young Thai kickers in intensive training, honing their scoring skills including body and head kicks, to increase agility and physical fitness. The training session took about 1 hour. 'Coach Chit' told all the athletes to be confident, not to be nervous, and to try to do as well as they had practiced. He is confident that the remaining 11 kickers will perform well and win medals. For today's competition program, there is 1 athlete competing in the men's 55 kg category. Thailand is sending "Chai" Phakphong Jitrat, a rising star kicker who won a silver medal at the Korea Open 2024 in July to compete. Source: Thai News Agency