Thailand competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic.^[1] Since the nation's official debut in 1952, Thai athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, with the exception of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, because of its partial support of the US-led boycott.

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

Thai athletes further achieved the entry standards, either by qualifying time or by world ranking, in the following track and field events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event):^[2][3]

Track & road events

Field events

Thailand entered seven badminton players for each of the following events into the Olympic tournament based on the BWF Race to Tokyo Rankings.^[4]

Men

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Athlete	Event	Group stage			Elimination	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Kantaphon Wangcharoen	Singles	Schäfer (GER) W (21–13, 21–15)	Penty (GBR) L (19–21, 12–21)	2	Did not advance

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Women

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Athlete	Event	Group stage				Elimination	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Ratchanok Intanon	Singles	Sárosi (HUN) W (21–5, 21–10)	Cheah (MAS) W (19–21, 21–18, 21–10)	—	1 Q	Tunjung (INA) W (21–12, 21–19)	Tai T-y (TPE) L (21–14, 18–21, 18–21)	Did not advance
Busanan Ongbamrungphan		Macías (PER) W (21–4, 21–9)	Kuuba (EST) W (21–16, 21–12)	—	1 Q	An S-y (KOR) L (15–21, 15–21)	Did not advance
Jongkolphan Kititharakul Rawinda Prajongjai	Doubles	Chen Qc / Jia Yf (CHN) L (6–21, 10–21)	Kim S-y / Kong H-y (KOR) L (19–21, 22–24)	G Stoeva / S Stoeva (BUL) L (11–21, 21–16, 17–21)	4	Did not advance

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Mixed

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Athlete	Event	Group stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Dechapol Puavaranukroh Sapsiree Taerattanachai	Doubles	Gicquel / Delrue (FRA) W (21–9, 21–15)	Hurlburt-Yu / Wu (CAN) W (21-13, 21-6)	Ellis / Smith (GBR) L (12–21, 19–21)	2 Q	Watanabe / Higashino (JPN) L (21–15, 16–21, 14–21)	Did not advance

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Thailand entered five boxers (two men and three women) into the Olympic tournament. 2018 Asian Games and world silver medalist Sudaporn Seesondee (women's lightweight) and teenagers Thitisan Panmot (men's flyweight) and Baison Manikon (women's welterweight), with men's featherweight boxer Chatchai Butdee going to his third consecutive Games, secured the spots on the Thai squad in their respective weight divisions, either by advancing to the semifinal match or by scoring a box-off triumph, at the 2020 Asia & Oceania Qualification Tournament in Amman, Jordan.^[5] Meanwhile, Jutmas Jitpong completed the nation's boxing lineup by topping the list of eligible boxers from Asia and Oceania in the women's flyweight division of the IOC's Boxing Task Force Rankings.

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Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Chatchai-decha Butdee	Men's featherweight	McGrail (GBR) W 5–0	Cuello (ARG) W 4–1	Álvarez (CUB) L 2–3	Did not advance
Jutamas Jitpong	Women's flyweight	Boualam (ALG) W 5–0	Magno (PHI) W 5–0	Çakıroğlu (TUR) L 0–5	Did not advance
Sudaporn Seesondee	Women's lightweight	Palacios (ECU) W 5–0	Kaur (IND) W 5–0	Dubois (GBR) W 3–2	Harrington (IRL) L 2–3	Did not advance
Baison Manikon	Women's welterweight	Dalgatova (ROC) W 4–1	Gu H (CHN) L 0–5	Did not advance

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Thailand fielded a squad of three equestrian riders for the first time into the Olympic team eventing competition by securing an outright berth as one of two top-ranked nations, not yet qualified, at the International Equestrian Federation (FEI)-designated Olympic qualifier for Group F and G (Africa, Middle East, Asia and Oceania) in Saumur, France.^[10]

Thailand entered four (two male and two female) golfers into the Olympic tournament. Jazz Janewattananond and Gunn Charoenkul qualified directly among the top 60 eligible players for the men's event. Patty Tavatanakit and Ariya Jutanugarn also qualified for the women's event.

Thailand entered one female judoka into the Olympic tournament based on the International Judo Federation Olympics Individual Ranking.^[12]

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Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Kachakorn Warasiha	Women's –52 kg	Iraoui (MAR) L 00–10	Did not advance

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Thailand qualified one boat in the men's lightweight double sculls for the Games by finishing second at the B-final and securing the last of three berths available at the 2021 FISA Asia & Oceania Olympic Qualification Regatta in Tokyo, Japan.

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Thai sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the class-associated World Championships, and the continental regattas.^[13]

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race

Thai shooters achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2018 ISSF World Championships, the 2019 ISSF World Cup series, and Asian Championships, as long as they obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by May 31, 2020.^[14]

Thailand received a universality invitation from FINA to send two top-ranked swimmers (one per gender) in their respective individual events to the Olympics, based on the FINA Points System of June 28, 2021.^[15]

Thailand entered two athletes into the table tennis competition at the Games. Rio 2016 Olympian Suthasini Sawettabut scored a repechage play-off victory to book the last of the five available places in the women's singles at the 2021 ITTF World Qualification Tournament in Doha, Qatar.^[16] Orawan Paranang topped the field of table tennis players from Southeast Asia in the round robin at the Asian Qualification Tournament, thereby joining Sawettabut on the country's roster for her maiden Games.^[17]

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Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Orawan Paranang	Women's singles	Bye	Díaz (PUR) W 4–0	Matelová (CZE) W 4–2	Ishikawa (JPN) L 2–4	Did not advance
Suthasini Sawettabut		Bye		Vega (CHI) W 4–0	Samara (ROU) W 4–1	Ito (JPN) L 0–4	Did not advance

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Thailand entered two athletes into the taekwondo competition at the Games. Rio 2016 bronze medalist Panipak Wongpattanakit qualified directly for the women's flyweight category (49 kg) by finishing among the top five taekwondo practitioners at the end of the WT Olympic Rankings. On the men's side, Ramnarong Sawekwiharee scored a semifinal victory in the flyweight category (58 kg) to book the remaining spot on the Thai taekwondo squad at the 2021 Asian Qualification Tournament in Amman, Jordan.^[18]

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Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ramnarong Sawekwiharee	Men's −58 kg	—	Khalil (AUS) W 23–7	Dell'Aquila (ITA) L 17–37 PTG	Did not advance	Salim (HUN) L 22–43 PTG	Did not advance	7
Panipak Wongpattanakit	Women's −49 kg	Bye	Semberg (ISR) W 29–5 PTG	Trương (VIE) W 20–11	Yamada (JPN) W 34–12 PTG	Bye	Cerezo (ESP) W 11–10

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