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Pichai Sayotha

Thai boxer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ4563132
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Pichai Sayotha (Thai: พิชัย สายโยธา; RTGS: Phichai Sai-yotha; born December 24, 1979) is a Thai amateur boxer best known for winning a silver medal in the lightweight category at the 2003 World Championships.

Career

Sayotha made his national debut in 2002.

In 2003 he had his biggest success at the World Championships in his home country only losing to Mario Kindelán.

In 2004 Summer Olympics he did not compete because he lost in the qualify of the national team representative to the senior boxer Somluck Kamsing in the lightweight category at The Mall Bangkhae.

He did not participate in 2005 and reached the quarterfinal in 2007 where he lost to Russian favorite Aleksei Tishchenko but qualified for Beijing (2008).

In 2005 he also competed for Thailand at the Boxing World Cup in Moscow, Russia, with one loss and one win in the preliminary round. In 2008 he beat Tishchenko at the Kings Cup. At the 2008 Summer Olympics he lost his only bout 4:10 to South Korean Baik Jong-Sub. After defeat, he retired.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Pichai Sayotha” as thai boxer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979, 2003, 2002, 2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1979-12-24. The account is most persuasive where Pichai, Sayotha and Thai can be independently traced.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4563132. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1979, 2003, 2002 and 2004.

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