This athlete is Pongsakorn Lekthongdang from the Thai delegation. He participated in the “Esports Mobile Legends: Bang Bang” with the disabled teams from Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines and Lekthongdang won very convincing initial victories.
But if other disabled athletes still use their hands to play, Lekthongdang had to use his feet because he was paralyzed both hands. Losing the most important “weapon”, the prerequisite for success or failure in Esports but Lekthongdang did not face many obstacles. He still helps Thailand defeat Malaysia, Philippines.
Today, he will fight against the Philippines in the semi -finals. Then may be the final. But even the final result of Lekthongdang, this athlete still makes everyone admire with his spirit of overcoming difficulties.
Lekthongdang is one of many typical athletes of the Thai delegation to Cambodia to attend Para Games 2023. Apart from the UK, it is impossible not to mention Monruedee Kengpila, the star who is 20 years old of the swimming village. She has won 5 swimming gold medals, the latest is 400m female content, breaking the record of ASEAN Para Games (the previous record was 6 minutes 20 seconds 65).
Thanks to the excellent performance of Kengpila, or the efforts of athletes like Lekthongdang, Thailand has risen to the third group. They won 23 gold medals, inferior to Vietnam 3 gold and Indonesia led 17 gold medals (as of June 5).
