Suban Pannon (; ; born May 10, 1978, in

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) is a Thai amateur boxer who won a gold medal at the

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Career

Pannon won the 1998 Asian Games in the men's light flyweight division. He claimed the bronze medal in the same division one year earlier, at the

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. He participated in the

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, where he was beaten in the second round of the light flyweight (– 48 kg) division by Ukraine's Valeriy Sydorenko. In this fight he lost because his ankle sprained during the bout. At the 2002 Asian Games he medaled again. He also participated in the

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, but was stopped in the second round by Cuba's eventual winner Yan Bartelemí. Pannon qualified for the Athens Games by ending up in second place at the

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. In the final he lost to Tajikistan's Sherali Dostiev. In 2005 Pannon competed for Thailand at the

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, with one win and one loss. He competed at the

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in the Light Flyweight (-48 kg) division and won the silver medal in a lost match against

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Zou Shiming 1-11. Currently, he is a boxing coach for Thailand national amateur boxing team including a coach for the Myanmar national amateur boxing team for a while. For Thailand national team whose his students include Sudaporn Seesondee, who won a bronze medal in the women's Lightweight (-60 kg) division at

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References

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1998 results

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