Aged 47, Queen Suthida competed in the SSL47 category, on 47-foot (14-meter) sailboats with ten mixed crew members.
The Queen of Thailand won a gold medal in sailing on Thursday at the Southeast Asian Games, an international sporting competition organized until December 20 in her country.
Aged 47, Queen Suthida competed in the SSL47 category, on 47-foot (14-meter) sailboats with ten mixed crew members.
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She played the roles of tactician and coxswain to lead the Thai team to victory in the turquoise waters of Pattaya, ahead of Malaysia and Myanmar.
Her gold medal is to be presented to her in person by King Maha Vajiralongkorn, 73, whose fourth wife she became in 2019.
Former Thai King Rama IX was also a gold medalist in sailing at the 1967 Peninsular Southeast Asian Games, along with his daughter, Princess Ubolratana Rajakanya.
A communications graduate, Queen Suthida worked as a flight attendant for Thai Airways before embarking on a career in the army.
This sports enthusiast ran a half marathon in 2h13’40 on December 1 in Bangkok with Kenyan running legend Eliud Kipchoge. She also plays ice hockey.
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The sovereign led the Thai delegation during the opening ceremony of the 33rd Southeast Asian Games on December 9 in the capital.
Two days before the end of the events, Thailand, at home, is well at the head of the medal table ahead of Indonesia and Vietnam.
Eleven countries were initially scheduled to take part in the competition, but Cambodia withdrew all of its athletes for security reasons due to ongoing clashes on the border with the organizing country.
