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Pleumjit Thinkaow (Thai: ปลื้มจิตร์ ถินขาว; RTGS: Pluemchit Thinkhao; born 9 November 1983) is a Thai volleyball player.[1]
She was a member of the Thailand women's national volleyball team.[2] Her international debut was at the 21st SEA Games in Malaysia.
Pleumjit grew up in a sport-loving family in Angthong (a province about 100 km. north of Bangkok), having an elder brother. Her parents are civil servants. Before she started playing volleyball, she was into table tennis. She switched to volleyball following her father's advice that volleyball was more fun and more likely to become popular. Afterwards, a volleyball coach of Bodindecha (Sing Singhaseni) School in Bangkok was so impressed by her playing that he brought her to the school during her high-school level. At first, she did not play as a middle blocker but an outside hitter.[3]
Pleumjit was first capped for the national junior team in 2000. A year later, she was chosen to join the national team. She went to play professional volleyball overseas for the first time in China for a month when she was 20 years old.
Pleumjit got her bachelor's degree and master's degree in Business Administration from Rattana Bundit University Bangkok.
Thinkaow won the 2013–14 Azerbaijani Super League Bronze Medal 3–0 to Azerrail Baku[4] and she won the Best Spiker award.[5] She ranked fifth in the 2010 Club World Championship with Federbrau and also ranked fifth in the 2011 Club World Championship playing with Chang. In the 2016 Club World Championship she ranked seventh with Bangkok Glass.
For the 2017 season, she played on loan with the Thai club Supreme Chonburi.[6]
In 2018 she played with the local Supreme Chonburi on loan.[7]
She is on the list 2019 Korea-Thailand all star super match competition.[8]
Pleumjit retired at the age of 37, after the 2021 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League.[9][10]
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