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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
Years active	1950's-1970's

Kyaung Thar (Burmese: ကျောင်းသား) was a Burmese boxer. He is a former multiple-time flag champion and gold medalist.

Lethwei career

In September 1960, around 20 boxers joined other sports teams as part of a cultural mission on a trip to China. Some boxers who came back from the trip were branded as 'ပီကင်းပြန်' meaning 'returned from Beijing', including Kyaung Thar. 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.

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.

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.

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, 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.

Titles and accomplishments

• 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.

Lethwei record

Professional Lethwei record (Incomplete)

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

1. "မြန်မာလက်ဝှေ့မတိမ်မြုပ်ရန်း ငွေရရေးထက် မူမပျက် ရေး". Myanma Alinn (in Burmese). 4 January 1970. p. 35 (of 245). Retrieved 26 August 2021.
2. "မြန်မာ့လက်ဝှေ့သမားများ ကျားဘညိမ်းလိုက်စည်းရုံး" [Light of Burma]. မြန်မာ့အလင်း (in Burmese). Ministry of Information. 2 January 1970.
3. "ကနေဒီမှ လွတ်သဘင်လက်ဝှေ့ တပြည်လုံးလက်ဝှေ့ ကျော်များကြဲမည်း" [The Valour]. သတ္တိ (in Burmese). 4 January 1963.
4. Ba Nyein, Kyar (15 April 1970). "တိမ်ယံကထွက်လာသော ဗမာ့လက်ဝှေ့" [Forward]. ရှေ့သို့ (in Burmese). Retrieved 8 August 2022.
5. ^ "ထိုးဝံ့သူမရှိတော့တဲ့ချန်ပီယံရွှေတံဆိပ်ဆုပေါင်း၁၁ခုအထိရရှိခဲ့ဘူးခြင်း" [Light of Burma]. မြန်မာ့အလင်း (in Burmese). Ministry of Information. 5 February 1964. မြန်မာပြည်နှင့်နိုင်ငံခြားတိုင်းမြည်များမှရွှေတံဆိပ်ပေါင်း၁၁ခုအထိရရှိခဲ့ဘူဖြစ်ကြောင်း။
6. Bettmann, Otto (22 September 1960). "Boxers in action". gettyimages. Bettmann Archive. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
7. Za, Aung. "ခေါင်းမှာသံခမောက်ချိုပေါက်မှကြောက်မယ်" [Starlight Magazine]. နက္ခတ္တရောင်ခြည်မဂ္ဂဇင်း (in Burmese). ချစ်ကြည်ရေးအဖွဲ့မှာ ဘောလုံးနဲ့ ခြင်းလုံး အားကစားသမားတွေလည်း ပါဝင်ကြပါတယ်။ အဲ့ဒီတုန်းက အတူပါသွားတဲ့ မြန်မာ့လက်ဝှေ့သမားတွေထဲမှာ မှတ်မိသလောက်ဆိုရင် (...)
8. "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 (..)
9. "ဗမာ့လက်ဝှေ့ပွဲတိုးလုံးဗိုလ်စွဲ၊ ပထမအလံဆုငွေအဖြစ်၅၀၀ချီးမြှင့်လိုက်ခြင်း" [Light of Burma]. မြန်မာ့အလင်း (in Burmese). Ministry of Information. 15 February 1965. ဒုတိယအလံဆုငွေ၃၀၀ကျပ်တန်း၌ ပထမဆုကိုကျောင်းသားကရရှိ၍
10. "မြန်မာ့လက်ဝှေ့အစွမ်းပြပွဲ ကျိုက္ကဆံကွင်းတွင်မေလ၁ရက်နေ့ကစမည်" [Light of Burma]. မြန်မာ့အလင်း (in Burmese). Ministry of Information. 20 April 1966. ဘားအံမှနာမည်ကျော်ကျောင်းသားကိုလည်းပထမအလံဗိုလ်လုပွဲတွင်ဝင်ရောက်ယှဥ်ပြိုင်နိုင်ရန်စီစဥ်နေကြသည်။
11. "မြန်မာလက်ဝှေ့သတင်းထောက်ထံမှ" [Light of Burma]. မြန်မာ့အလင်း (in Burmese). Ministry of Information. 18 March 1966. ယခုနှစ်တံခွန်စိုက်ဆုကြီးကို၁၉၆၅ခု၌ဗိုလ်စွဲခဲ့သော ‌ကျောင်သားတို့ကလည်း၎င်းတို့ပငဲဆွတ်ခူးနိုင်ရေး

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