Wuttichai Yurachai: 2021 World Silver Medalist
Thailand’s Wuttichai Yurachai won the silver medal in the men’s 48 kg minimumweight division at the 2021 AIBA Men’s World Boxing Championships in Belgrade. The official results list Temirtas Zhussupov of Kazakhstan as champion and Yurachai as runner-up. Yurachai also competed at the 2023 IBA World Championships, where he faced Edmond Khudoian of Russia. 2021 official medal table · 2023 official bout results.
How Yurachai reached the Belgrade final
The official draw sheet records a demanding route through the 23-boxer minimumweight field. Yurachai defeated Poland’s Jakub Slominski and Chinese Taipei’s Lin Hong-Da before meeting Japan’s Kazuma Aratake in the quarterfinals. He won that closer contest by a 3–2 points decision, moving into the medal rounds.
In the semifinal, Yurachai beat Georgia’s Sakhil Alakhverdovi by a unanimous 5–0 decision. He then faced Zhussupov in the final on November 5, where the Kazakh boxer won 5–0. Yurachai finished with silver, while Alakhverdovi and Belarus’s Yauheni Karmilchyk received the two bronze medals. Reaching the final required four victories, giving his runner-up finish a clear sequence beyond the medal table alone.
Returning to the world championships
Yurachai’s later world championship appearance came in Tashkent in 2023. The official May 10 session results show a 5–0 points defeat against Khudoian in the men’s 46–48 kilogram category. The Belgrade silver medal and the subsequent Tashkent bout document his participation at successive editions of the tournament, with his strongest result coming in 2021.
Further career results
The 2023 bout was recorded as contest 474 in the May 10 session at Tashkent. Yurachai boxed from the blue corner against Khudoian in the red corner. Each of the five judges returned a 30–27 card for Khudoian, so the unanimous decision reflected agreement across the entire judging panel. Unlike his 2021 run to the final, this appearance ended before the medal rounds. The result sheet identifies him with Thailand and confirms that the contest took place in the same 46–48 kilogram category.
Sources
- IBA: 2021 minimumweight draw and results
- IBA: 2021 Men’s World Championships medal table
- IBA: 2023 World Championships results
- IBA results: 2021 Belgrade championships
