Manus Boonjumnong


Manus Boonjumnong is a Thai boxer who won the Olympics at Light Welterweight at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He is the older brother of Non Boonjumnong.

Amateur career

At the 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships in his home town Bangkok, the light-footed counterpuncher won the bronze medal losing to Russian Alexander Maletin.
In 2006, he made a successful comeback when he was crowned Asian champion. He narrowly defeated reigning 2005 world champion Serik Sapiyev at the tournament although he was knocked down.
In Chicago at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships, he was upset early against Japanese Masatsugu Kawachi.

Olympics 2004

Boonjumnong qualified for the Athens Games by ending up in first place at the 1st AIBA Asian 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Guangzhou, PR China. In the final he defeated Kazakhstan's Nurzhan Karimzhanov. In Athens he beat reigning world champion Willy Blain and the Cuban Yudel Johnson in the final and won gold.
2004 Olympic Results
ResultRecordOpponentTypeRound, timeDateLocationNotes
Loss5–1 Ryan FordTKO5 April 22, 2016
Win5–0 David SaulTKO5 March 25, 2016
Win4–0 Suik HaidariTKO3 January 22, 2016
Win3–0 Jonatan SimamoraKO1 December 7, 2015
Win2–0 Marco TuhumuryUD4September 27, 2015
Win1–0 Jamed JalaranteUD4June 27, 2015Professional boxing debut.