Saralee Thungthongkam

Saralee Thungthongkam
Personal information
Nickname(s)	Som ส้ม
Country	Thailand
Born	13 June 1979 (age 37) Bangkok, Thailand
Medal record Women's badminton Representing  Thailand Southeast Asian Games 2003 Hanoi Mixed doubles 2011 Palembang Women's Team 1999 Bandar Seri Begawan Women's Team 2005 Manila Women's doubles 2007 Nakhon Ratchasima Mixed doubles 2011 Palembang Mixed doubles 1999 Bandar Seri Begawan Women's doubles 1999 Bandar Seri Begawan Mixed doubles 2001 Kuala Lumpur Mixed doubles Badminton Asia Championships 2005 Hyderabad Mixed doubles 2002 Bangkok Mixed doubles 2004 Kuala Lumpur Mixed doubles 2006 Johor Bahru Mixed doubles 2004 Kuala Lumpur Women's doubles 2010 New Delhi Mixed doubles 2011 Chengdu Mixed doubles

Captain Saralee Thungthongkam (born 13 June 1979, Thai: สราลีย์ ทุ่งทองคำ ผู้พัน หรือน.อ.ส้ม; rtgs: Sarali Thungthongkham) is a female badminton player from Thailand. She graduate a master of communication arts from Bangkok University

At the 2000 Summer Olympics, she reached the second round of the women's doubles with Sujitra Ekmongkolpaisarn, and the second round of the mixed doubles with Khunakorn Sudhisodhi.^[1]

Thungthongkam competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Sathinee Chankrachangwong.^[2] They defeated Denyse Julien and Anna Rice of Canada in the first round and Chikako Nakayama and Keiko Yoshimoti of Japan in the second. In the quarterfinals, Thungthongkam and Chankrachangwong lost to Zhang Jiewen and Yang Wei of China 15-2, 15-4.

Thungthongkam also competed in mixed doubles with partner Sudket Prapakamol. They had a bye in the first run and were defeated by Frederik Bergstrom and Johanna Persson of Sweden in the round of 16.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics, she only competed in the mixed doubles, again with Sudket Prapakamol. They reached the quarter finals, losing to the Indonesian pair of Nova Widianto and Liliyana Natsir, who went on to win the silver medal.^[3]

She competed in the mixed doubles again at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she again reached the quarter finals with Prapakamol. This time they lost to Christinna Pedersen and Joachim Fischer of Denmark.^[4]

Achievements

Mixed Doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent in final	Score	Result
2015	Dutch Open	Sudket Prapakamol	Ronan Labar Emilie Lefel	10-21, 18-21	Runner-up
2012	Indonesia Open	Sudket Prapakamol	Tontowi Ahmad Liliyana Natsir	21-17, 17-21, 21-13	Winner
2012	Thailand Open	Sudket Prapakamol	Tao Jiaming Tang Jinhua	14-21, 16-21	Runner-up
2012	India Open	Sudket Prapakamol	Tontowi Ahmad Liliyana Natsir	16-21, 21-12, 14-21	Runner-up
2012	Swiss Open	Sudket Prapakamol	Tontowi Ahmad Liliyana Natsir	16-21, 14-21	Runner-up
2011	Syed Modi International	Sudket Prapakamol	Muhammad Rijal Debby Susanto	16–21, 21–18, 21–11	Winner
2011	Dutch Open	Sudket Prapakamol	Songphon Anugritayawon Kunchala Voravichitchaikul	17-21, 22-24	Runner-up
2011	All England	Sudket Prapakamol	Xu Chen Ma Jin	13-21, 9-21	Runner-up
2010	French Open	Sudket Prapakamol	Michael Fuchs Birgit Michels	21-15, 21-15	Winner
2010	Malaysia Masters	Sudket Prapakamol	Devin Lahardi Fitriawan Liliyana Natsir	21-13, 16-21, 17-21	Runner-up
2009	Thailand Open	Sudket Prapakamol	Songphon Anugritayawon Kunchala Voravichitchaikul	21-11, 17-21, 14-21	Runner-up

Notes:

     Super Series Premier Tournament

     Super Series Tournament

     Grand Prix Gold Tournament

     Grand Prix Tournament

References

1. "Saralee Thungthongkam at sports-reference.com". www.sports-reference.com. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
2. "BBC Sport: Results – Badminton : doubles". bbc. 12 August 2004. Retrieved 2010-02-27.
3. "Beijing 2008 – Badminton – Mixed Doubles". www.olympic.org. IOC. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
4. "London 2012 – Badminton – Mixed Doubles". www.olympic.org. IOC. Retrieved 12 November 2014.

External links

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