Kyaung Thar
| Kyaung Thar | |
|---|---|
 Kyaung Thar in 1963 | |
| Born | Sein Tin Hton Aing village, Hpa-an Township, Karen State |
| Native name | စိန်တင် |
| Other names | Pekin Pyan Kyaung Thar (ပီကင်းပြန်ကျောင်းသား) Hpa-an Kyaung Thar (ဖါးအံကျောင်းသား) Hton Aing Kyaung Thar (ထုံးအိုင်ကျောင်းသား) |
| Nationality | Burmese |
| Style | Lethwei |
| Fighting out of | Hpa-an & Mawlamyine |
| Rank | First class[1][2] |
| Years active | 1950's-1970's |
Kyaung Thar (Burmese: ကျောင်းသား) was a Burmese boxer.[3][4] He is a former multiple-time flag champion and gold medalist.[5]
Lethwei career[edit]
In September 1960, around 20 boxers joined other sports teams as part of a cultural mission on a trip to China.[6] Some boxers who came back from the trip were branded as 'ပီကင်းပြန်' meaning 'returned from Beijing', including Kyaung Thar.[7] The Burmese boxers joined a cultural mission alongside Prime Minister U Nu who was there to sign a Sino-Burmese boundary treaty with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai.[8]
In 1963, Kyaung Thar was featured in a January issue of Thutti Journal (The Valour). It discussed his rise in second class and a meeting with one of the divisions stars in Hla Shwe for the upcoming Independence Day event at Kennedy Island in Rangoon.
In 1964, he was featured in a lengthy article for Light of Burma. The report came from Hpa-an and once more stressed that Kyaung Thar had no competitors left in second class. He had won the second-class flag at this year's Kennedy Island event and was now seen in battles in Hpa-an at the Thay Hta Man Aung Pagoda festival which runs annually from January 26 to January 31. In the second-class final at the Pagoda festival in Hpa-an he beat successful boxer Sat Kalay in round 4 by breaking his hand. After the fight, Kyaung Thar reportedly challenged first-class boxer Sein Lone. Two other encounters with Sat Kalay are mentioned in the article: 1962 in Karen State, which ended in KO; and in 1963, at the Labour Day event in Mawlamyine, where he broke the jaw and arm of Sat Kalay.[5]
On February 13, 1965, he took home 300 Kyats and the second-class flag at the 18th anniversary of Union Day event in Hpa-an, once again defeating Sat Kalay. That same event saw Toe Lone win the first-class flag in the twilight of his career.[9]
A report on the Shwemawdaw Pagoda festival in Pegu from April 1 to April 8, 1966, mentions that Kyaung Thar took part in the first-class flag tournament,[10] and that he was last year's recipient of the second-class flag at this event. Alongside him, boxers Chit Sayar, Phyu Gyi, Phyu Lay, Shu Ma Wa, Tin Shwe, Hla Shwe, Patma Sein and Talaing Sein participated.[11]
Titles and accomplishments[edit]
- Tournaments
- Second-class flag champion; Shwemawdaw Pagoda festival (April 1965)
- Second-class flag champion; 18th anniversary of Union Day (February 1965)
- Second-class flag champion; Thay Hta Man Aung Pagoda festival (January (1964)
- Second-class flag champion; 16th anniversary of Independence (January 1964)
- Third-class flag champion; Karen State Day Hpa-an (November 1960)
- Third-class flag champion; Kyaikkhami Pagoda Festival (October 1959)
- Other accomplishments
- 11-time receiver of a gold medal in competitions in and outside of Burma by 1964.[5]
Lethwei record[edit]
| 17 fights, 11 wins (11 (T)KOs), 3 losses, 2 draws | |||||||
| Date | Result | Opponent | Event | Location | Method | Round | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970-01-11 | Loss |  Sein Lone |
Final, Independence Day, Thein Phyu Stadium | Rangoon, Burma | TKO | ||
| 1970-01-09 | Win | Hla Shwe |
Semi final, Independence Day, Thein Phyu Stadium | Rangoon, Burma | TKO | ||
| 1970-01-08 | Phyu Lay |
Independence Day, Thein Phyu Stadium | Rangoon, Burma | ||||
| 1965-04-19 | Win | |
Shwemawdaw Pagoda festival | Pegu, Burma | |||
| 1965-02-13 | Win | Sat Kalay (Paingkyon) |
18th Anniversary of Union Day | Hpa-an, Burma | |||
| 1964-01-31 | Win | Sat Kalay (Paingkyon) |
Thay Hta Man Aung Pagoda festival | Hpa-an, Burma | TKO | 4 | |
| 1964-01-09 | Win | |
Independence Day, Kennedy Island | Rangoon, Burma | |||
| 1964-01-03 | Win | Hla Maung |
Independence Day, Kennedy Island | Rangoon, Burma | KO | ||
| 1963-05-01 | Win | Sat Kalay (Paingkyon) |
Labour Day | Mawlamyine, Burma | TKO | ||
| 1963-01-05 | Loss | Phyu Kalay (Thaton) |
Independence Day, Kennedy Island | Rangoon, Burma | TKO | ||
| 1963-01-03 | Draw | Sat Kalay (Paingkyon) |
Independence Day, Kennedy Island | Rangoon, Burma | Draw | 4 | |
| 1962-00-00 | Win | Sat Kalay (Paingkyon) |
Karen State, Burma | KO | |||
| 1961-03-24 | Win | Hla Shwe (Thaton) |
Challenge fights, Aung San Stadium | Rangoon, Burma | KO | 4 | |
| 1960-11-09 | Win | Maung Dway (Thaton) |
Karen State Day | Hpa-an, Burma | TKO | ||
| 1960-11-08 | Win | Shwegun Daung |
Karen State Day | Hpa-an, Burma | TKO | ||
| 1960-09-03 | Draw | Tin Shwe (Thaton) |
Challenge fights, Aung San Stadium | Rangoon, Burma | Draw | 4 | |
| 1960-01-05 | Loss | Tin Ngwe |
Independence Day, Kennedy Island | Rangoon, Burma | TKO | ||
| 1959-10-20 | Win | Daung Kalay |
Kyaikkhami Yele Pagoda Festival | Kyaikkhami, Burma | TKO | 4 | |
References[edit]
- ^ "မြန်မာလက်ဝှေ့မတိမ်မြုပ်ရန်း ငွေရရေးထက် မူမပျက် ရေး". Myanma Alinn (in Burmese). 4 January 1970. p. 35 (of 245). Retrieved 26 August 2021.
- ^ "မြန်မာ့လက်ဝှေ့သမားများ ကျားဘညိမ်းလိုက်စည်းရုံး" [Light of Burma]. မြန်မာ့အလင်း (in Burmese). Ministry of Information. 2 January 1970.
- ^ "ကနေဒီမှ လွတ်သဘင်လက်ဝှေ့ တပြည်လုံးလက်ဝှေ့ ကျော်များကြဲမည်း" [The Valour]. သတ္တိ (in Burmese). 4 January 1963.
- ^ Ba Nyein, Kyar (15 April 1970). "တိမ်ယံကထွက်လာသော ဗမာ့လက်ဝှေ့" [Forward]. ရှေ့သို့ (in Burmese). Retrieved 8 August 2022.
- ^ a b c "ထိုးဝံ့သူမရှိတော့တဲ့ချန်ပီယံရွှေတံဆိပ်ဆုပေါင်း၁၁ခုအထိရရှိခဲ့ဘူးခြင်း" [Light of Burma]. မြန်မာ့အလင်း (in Burmese). Ministry of Information. 5 February 1964.
မြန်မာပြည်နှင့်နိုင်ငံခြားတိုင်းမြည်များမှရွှေတံဆိပ်ပေါင်း၁၁ခုအထိရရှိခဲ့ဘူဖြစ်ကြောင်း။
- ^ Bettmann, Otto (22 September 1960). "Boxers in action". gettyimages. Bettmann Archive. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
- ^ Za, Aung. "ခေါင်းမှာသံခမောက်ချိုပေါက်မှကြောက်မယ်" [Starlight Magazine]. နက္ခတ္တရောင်ခြည်မဂ္ဂဇင်း (in Burmese).
ချစ်ကြည်ရေးအဖွဲ့မှာ ဘောလုံးနဲ့ ခြင်းလုံး အားကစားသမားတွေလည်း ပါဝင်ကြပါတယ်။ အဲ့ဒီတုန်းက အတူပါသွားတဲ့ မြန်မာ့လက်ဝှေ့သမားတွေထဲမှာ မှတ်မိသလောက်ဆိုရင် (...)
- ^ "Burmese Chief Goes to Peiping". Evening Star US-DC. Washington. 27 September 1960.
Prime Minister U Nu left by plane for Peiping today (..) Also there from Burma are the chief of the defense staff, Gen. Ne Win; a cultural mission (..)
- ^ "ဗမာ့လက်ဝှေ့ပွဲတိုးလုံးဗိုလ်စွဲ၊ ပထမအလံဆုငွေအဖြစ်၅၀၀ချီးမြှင့်လိုက်ခြင်း" [Light of Burma]. မြန်မာ့အလင်း (in Burmese). Ministry of Information. 15 February 1965.
ဒုတိယအလံဆုငွေ၃၀၀ကျပ်တန်း၌ ပထမဆုကိုကျောင်းသားကရရှိ၍
- ^ "မြန်မာ့လက်ဝှေ့အစွမ်းပြပွဲ ကျိုက္ကဆံကွင်းတွင်မေလ၁ရက်နေ့ကစမည်" [Light of Burma]. မြန်မာ့အလင်း (in Burmese). Ministry of Information. 20 April 1966.
ဘားအံမှနာမည်ကျော်ကျောင်းသားကိုလည်းပထမအလံဗိုလ်လုပွဲတွင်ဝင်ရောက်ယှဥ်ပြိုင်နိုင်ရန်စီစဥ်နေကြသည်။
- ^ "မြန်မာလက်ဝှေ့သတင်းထောက်ထံမှ" [Light of Burma]. မြန်မာ့အလင်း (in Burmese). Ministry of Information. 18 March 1966.
ယခုနှစ်တံခွန်စိုက်ဆုကြီးကို၁၉၆၅ခု၌ဗိုလ်စွဲခဲ့သော ကျောင်သားတို့ကလည်း၎င်းတို့ပငဲဆွတ်ခူးနိုင်ရေး