Somjit Jongjohor

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Somjit Jongjohor (born January 19, 1975) is an amateur Thai boxer who won the 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships at flyweight against Frenmchman Jerome Thomas (boxer) (Thomas also won Olympic silver 2004).

At the Olympics 2004 he had bad luck with the draw and was outpointed by eventual winner Yuriorkis Gamboa Toledano.

He won silver at the 2006 Asian Games in the Flyweight (-51 kg) division when he was upset by Filipino boxer Violito Payla 15-31. He had beaten the Filipino three times before. [1]

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