‘Thai Bolt’ Puripol Bunson wins the Asian Games men’s 200m Asian record… Achieved 2 awards

(Nagoya = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Kyung-yoon = 'Thai Bolt' Puripol Bunson (20) won two gold medals at the Asian Games, setting an Asian record.

Bunson won the men's 200m final at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games held at the Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium in Nagoya, Japan on the 27th, narrowly beating China's Huang Yu-wen (20.45) with an Asian tie record of 19.88.

He set the same record as the existing Asian record (19.88 seconds) set by China's Xie Zhenye in 2019.

Bunson drew even more attention by tying the Asian record in the worst rainy conditions on this day.

After finishing the race, he celebrated his second gold medal by performing a 'lightning ceremony' reminiscent of his role model, Usain Bolt.

Bunson, who won the Asian Games competition record of 9.90 seconds in the men's 100m held at the same venue on the 24th, won two gold medals in this competition.

Born on January 13, 2006, Bunson has established himself as Asia's best sprinter by setting world-class records since last year.

He tied for 5th place in the world's under-20 world record with a time of 9.94 seconds in the men's 100m preliminaries at the 2025 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games last year, and won this competition with a time of 9.95 seconds in the men's 100m preliminaries, a new Asian Games record of 9.91 seconds in the semifinals, and 9.90 seconds, a new Asian Games record, in the finals.

Bunson did not stop there, but also set an overwhelming record in the men's 200m.

Overseas athletics media outlets expect Bunson to record even better records at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, when he turns 22.

The men's 100m Asian record is 9.83 seconds set by China's Xu Bingtian in 2021.