4 Southeast Asian countries with medals at the Paris 2024 Olympics Convincingly defeating Lee Zii Jia (Malaysia) in the men's singles badminton semifinals at the Paris 2024 Olympics, Kunlavut Vitidsarn (Thailand) is expected to bring home the first gold medal for the Golden Temple country at the Olympics. Kunlavut Vitidsarn's opponent in the final is Viktor Axelsen (Denmark, world No. 2). This is a very interesting match between the reigning world champion Kunlavut Vitidsarn and the reigning Olympic gold medalist Viktor Axelsen, becoming the focus of attention on August 5 of the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Kunlavut Vitidsarn missed the Olympic gold medal

Despite showing his best, Kunlavut Vitidsarn had to give up his racket 0-2 (11/21, 11/21) to the Danish player. Unable to win the historic gold medal, Vitidsarn's silver medal still helped Thailand own the first medal at the 2024 Olympics. This is something that many countries in the world are looking forward to, including Vietnam. Thus, as of the evening of August 5 (Vietnam time), the Southeast Asian countries with Olympic medals include: Philippines (2 gold medals), Indonesia (2 bronze medals), Malaysia (1 bronze medal) and Thailand (1 silver medal). In which, the Philippines caused a stir with 2 gold medals, both won by male athlete Carlos Yulo in gymnastics. In the coming days, Thailand is expected to win medals because they have excellent athletes in taekwondo, notably boxer Panipak Wongpattanakit (women's 49kg weight class) and boxer Banlung Tubtimdang (men's 68kg weight class).