Police Lieutenant colonel Wijan Ponlid is a Thai boxer who competed in the Men's Flyweight division at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal.
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Police Lieutenant colonel Wijan Ponlid is a Thai boxer who competed in the Men's Flyweight division at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal. He returned to Thailand to a hero's welcome: honored with a new house, over 20 million baht, a job promotion, and paraded at the head of a procession of 49 elephants through the city of Bangkok. He has the nickname "Thai Pea", in reference to another great southpaw defensive boxing master, Pernell "Sweet Pea" Whitaker.
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living
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Born 1976 · age 50
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