Ratapong Sirisanont
- January 10, 2024
- Swimmer
Quick Facts
Ratapong Sirisanont Biography
| Name | Ratapong Sirisanont |
| Birthday | Jul 1 |
| Birth Year | 1976 |
| Place Of Birth | Bangkok |
| Birth Country | Thailand |
| Birth Sign | Cancer |
Ratapong Sirisanont is one of the most popular and richest Swimmer who was born on July 1, 1976 in Bangkok, Thailand.
Sirisanont began swimming at age seven, despite that he did not like the sport much at first. Admittedly, he had some breathing problems while jumping off into the water. In 1991, Sirisanont was selected to the Thai national team at his first Southeast Asian Games in Manila, where he won six medals (four golds and two bronze). His name was reached towards an early sport popularity, when he broke SEA Games records in three different events.
Sirisanont made his first Thai team, as a sixteen-year-old teen, at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. He was ranked about the “middle of the road” in his individual events, finishing twenty-seventh in the 1500 m freestyle (16:08.02), twenty-ninth in the 400 m individual medley (4:37.95), and thirty- ninth each in the 400 m freestyle (4:07.95) and 200 m individual medley (2:11.02).
Ratapong Sirisanont Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Swimmer |
| House | Living in own house. |
Ratapong Sirisanont is one of the richest Swimmer from Thailand. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ratapong Sirisanont 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Ratapong “Nuk” Sirisanont (Thai: รัฐพงศ์ ศิริสานนท์ ; born July 1, 1976) is a Thai former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke, but also competed in long-distance freestyle and individual medley. He is a four-time Olympian (1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004), a three-time Asian Games participant (1994, 1998, and 2002), and a seven-time SEA Games athlete (1991–2003). Regarded as Thailand’s top swimmer, he has won a total of sixteen medals at the Southeast Asian Games since 1995, and six at the Asian Games, including two golds in the 200 and 400 m individual medley. At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Sirisanont became the first Thai swimmer to reach the final twice (both 200 and 400 m individual medley). Sirisanont is also one of three Southeast Asian swimmers, along with Malaysia’s Alex Lim and Philippines’ Miguel Molina, to train for the California Golden Bears in the United States, under head coach Nort Thornton.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
| Height | 5 ft 11 in |
| Weight | 76 kg |
Ratapong Sirisanont height 5 ft 11 in Ratchaneewan weight 76 kg & body measurements will update soon.
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At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Sirisanont drastically shortened his program, swimming only in the 200 m breaststroke. Because he made poor decisions to drop most of his events, including the 200 and 400 m individual medley, Sirisanont delivered his worst Olympic feat with a forty-first-place effort on the morning prelims, finishing in a time of 2:23.95.
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Ratchaneewan Ranked on the list of most popular Swimmer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Thailand. Ratapong Sirisanont celebrates birthday on July 1 of every year.
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Sirisanont decided to focus more on the breaststroke, in which he had performed poorly in Sydney four years earlier. After producing a best tally of four gold medals from the SEA Games, his entry times of 1:03.13 (100 m breaststroke) and 2:16.67 (200 m breaststroke) were officially accredited under a FINA B-standard. On the first day of the Games, Sirisanont started his prelim run with another poor result. He swam in heat four of the 100 m breaststroke with a reaction time of 0.77, but was eventually disqualified for a false start. In his second event, 200 m breaststroke, Sirisanont lowered his personal best of 2:15.39 to lead the third heat. Sirisanont missed the semifinals by 0.71 of a second, finishing his Olympic run in nineteenth overall from the preliminaries. Since his debut 1992, Sirisanont was among the swimmers who campaigned for their fourth Olympics, along with Carl Probert (Fiji), Derya Büyükuncu (Turkey), Martina Moravcová (Slovakia), Lars Frölander (Sweden), and two-time freestyle champion Alexander Popov (Russia), who later became an official IOC member.