Yaowapa Boorapolchai (Thai: เยาวภา บุรพลชัย; RTGS: Yaowapha Buraphonchai; born September 6, 1984, at Bangkok) is a Thai taekwondo athlete who was the bronze medalist in the women's under 49 kg event at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

She defeated Ivett Gonda of Canada and Gladys Alicia Mora Romero of Colombia in the repechage tournament to win the bronze and become the first Thai Olympic medalist outside of boxing and weightlifting.

Besides her loss to Diaz in Athens, she also lost to Lim Su-Jeong, a Korean exponent, in a gold-medal match at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea, and was defeated in the first round at the 2005 South East Asian Games in the Philippines by Loraine Lorelie Catalan, a Filipino exponent.

In 2011 Yaowa entered politics by applying to be a member of the Chart Pattana Puea Pandin Party and to be a candidate for the House of Representatives in the 2011 election in the Bangkok area.

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