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India's [[Mary Kom]] is a six-time [[World Amateur Boxing Championships|World Amateur Boxing]] champion, and the only woman boxer to have won a medal in each one of the six world championships.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Magnificent Mary|url = http://iseeindia.com/2011/08/13/magnificent-mary/|website = I See India|access-date = 2015-05-04}}</ref> She also became the first Indian woman boxer to get a Gold Medal at the Asian Games during the [[2014 Asian Games]] at [[Incheon]], South Korea.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/sports/sport-others/mc-mary-kom-delivers-first-boxing-gold-at-asian-games-2014/|title=MC Mary Kom delivers first boxing gold at Asian Games 2014|access-date=2015-05-04}}</ref>
India's [[Mary Kom]] is a six-time [[World Amateur Boxing Championships|World Amateur Boxing]] champion, and the only woman boxer to have won a medal in each one of the six world championships.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Magnificent Mary|url = http://iseeindia.com/2011/08/13/magnificent-mary/|website = I See India|access-date = 2015-05-04}}</ref> She also became the first Indian woman boxer to get a Gold Medal at the Asian Games during the [[2014 Asian Games]] at [[Incheon]], South Korea.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/sports/sport-others/mc-mary-kom-delivers-first-boxing-gold-at-asian-games-2014/|title=MC Mary Kom delivers first boxing gold at Asian Games 2014|access-date=2015-05-04}}</ref>


Five Indian boxers, two male and three female, were among the world’s top three in [[International Boxing Association (amateur)|AIBA]] latest world rankings (March 1, 2014) in their respective categories. The rankings were as follows:
==Total medals won by Indian Boxers in Major tournaments==
{| class="wikitable"
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|+March 1, 2014 [[AIBA World Boxing Championships|AIBA]] Rankings<ref>{{Cite news|title = Five Indian boxers in AIBA top three|url = http://www.thehindu.com/sport/other-sports/five-indian-boxers-in-aiba-top-three/article5756665.ece|newspaper = The Hindu|date = March 6, 2014|access-date = 2015-05-04|issn = 0971-751X|first = Nandakumar|last = Marar}}</ref>
! Competition
!Rank
! Gold
!Name
! Silver
!Weight Category
! Bronze
!Country
! Total
|-
 
|[[Boxing at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]
|0
|0
|3
|3
|-
|[[AIBA World Boxing Championships|World Boxing Championships]]
|10
|9
|26
|45
|-
|[[Boxing at the Asian Games|Asian Games]]
|9
|16
|32
|57
|-
|[[Boxing at the Commonwealth Games|Commonwealth Games]]
|8
|12
|17
|37
|-
|-
|1
|[[Asian Amateur Boxing Championships|Asian Championships]]
|Birzhan Zharypov
|30
|46–48&nbsp;kg - Men
|46
|Kazakhstan
|68
|144
|-
|-
|2
| Total || '''57''' || '''83''' || '''146''' || '''286'''
|David Ayrapetan
|-
|46–48&nbsp;kg - Men
|}
|Russia
 
== Notable Performance at Summer Olympics ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|-
|'''3'''
! Year !! Event !! Player !! Result
|'''[[Devendro Singh|L Devendro Singh]]'''
|'''46–48&nbsp;kg - Men'''
|'''India'''
|-
|-
|
|rowspan = "2"|[[Boxing at the 2000 Summer Olympics|2000]]
|
|
|
|-
|-
|1
| [[Boxing at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Light heavyweight|Light heavyweight]] || [[Gurcharan Singh (boxer)|Gurcharan Singh]] || '''Quarter-finals'''
|Robeisy Ramirez Carranza
|56&nbsp;kg - Men
|Cuba
|-
|-
|2
|rowspan = "4"|[[Boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics|2008]]
|John Michael Conlan
|56&nbsp;kg - Men
|Ireland
|-
|-
|'''3'''
| [[Boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Middleweight|Middleweight]] || '''[[Vijender Singh]]''' || style="background:#c96;" align=center| {{brca}}
|'''[[Shiva Thapa]]'''
|'''56&nbsp;kg - Men'''
|'''India'''
|-
|-
|
| [[Boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Flyweight|Flyweight]] || [[Jitender Kumar (boxer, born 1988)|Jitender Kumar]] || '''Quarter-finals'''
|
|
|
|-
|-
|1
| [[Boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Bantamweight|Bantamweight]] || [[Akhil Kumar]] || '''Quarter-finals'''
|Josie Gabuco
|45–48&nbsp;kg - Women
|Philippines
|-
|-
|'''2'''
|rowspan = "4"|[[Boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics|2012]]
|'''[[Pinki Jangra]]'''
|'''45–48&nbsp;kg - Women'''
|'''India'''
|-
|-
|3
| [[Boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's flyweight|Women's flyweight]] || '''[[Mary Kom]]''' || style="background:#c96;" align=center| {{brca}}
|Shiqi Xu
|45–48&nbsp;kg - Women
|China
|-
|-
|
| [[Boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's light flyweight|Men's light flyweight]] || [[Devendro Singh]] || '''Quarter-finals'''
|
|
|
|-
|-
|1
| [[Boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's middleweight|Men's middleweight]] || [[Vijender Singh]] || '''Quarter-finals'''
|Cancan Ren
|51&nbsp;kg - Women
|China
|-
|-
|2
|rowspan = "2"|[[Boxing at the 2016 Summer Olympics|2016]]
|Nicola Adams
|51&nbsp;kg - Women
|England
|-
|-
|'''3'''
| [[Boxing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's middleweight|Men's middleweight]] || [[Vikas Krishan Yadav]] || '''Quarter-finals'''
|'''[[Mary Kom|M C Mary Kom]]'''
|'''51&nbsp;kg - Women'''
|'''India'''
|-
|-
|
|rowspan = "4"|[[Boxing at the 2020 Summer Olympics|2020]]
|
|
|
|-
|-
|1
| [[Boxing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's welterweight|Women's welterweight]] || '''[[Lovlina Borgohain]]''' || style="background:#c96;" align=center| {{brca}}
|Yunfei Li
|81+&nbsp;kg - Women
|China
|-
|-
|2
| [[Boxing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's middleweight|Women's middleweight]] || [[Pooja Rani]] || '''Quarter-finals'''
|Lazzat Kungeibaevya
|81+&nbsp;kg - Women
|Kazakhstan
|-
|-
|'''3'''
| [[Boxing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's super heavyweight|Men's super heavyweight]] || [[Satish Kumar (boxer)|Satish Kumar]] || '''Quarter-finals'''
|'''[[Kavita Chahal]]'''
|'''81+&nbsp;kg - Women'''
|'''India'''
|}
|}
In December, 2014, [[Indian Boxing Federation|Boxing India]] declared its 1st Elite Men's Nationals in Nagpur which were held from January 9 to 15,<ref>{{cite news| url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/boxing/Mens-Boxing-Nationals-to-be-held-from-January-9/articleshow/45525862.cms | title=Men's Boxing Nationals to be held from January 9 | publisher=Timesofindia}}</ref> where boxers [[Satish Kumar (boxer)|Satish Kumar]], [[Manpreet Singh (boxer)|Manpreet Singh]], [[Sumit Sangwan]], Mrunal Bhosale won medals.<ref>{{cite web|title=1 st Elite Men’s National Boxing Championship|url=http://boxingindia.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/1st-Elite-Mens-National-Boxing-Champrionship-Results.pdf|website=Boxing India|access-date=17 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150614174834/http://boxingindia.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/1st-Elite-Mens-National-Boxing-Champrionship-Results.pdf|archive-date=14 June 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>


==In popular culture==
==In popular culture==

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Boxing in India
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Vijender Singh
CountryIndia
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In India, the sport of boxing is governed by the Indian Boxing Federation. The majority of boxing in India occurs nationally and internationally as amateur boxing, with only a few boxers opting to pursue professional boxing. This has been attributed to a lack of promotional companies, facilities, and revenue. However, India is a regular medal-holder at international tournaments including the Asian Games and Commonwealth Games, and Olympics. Boxing has been rising in popularity in certain states, particularly in Haryana. The Bhiwani Boxing Club in Bhiwani, Haryana has produced medalists in various weight classes.[1][2]

Notable boxers and boxing victories[edit]

At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Vijender Singh won a bronze medal in the middleweight boxing category, while Akhil Kumar and Jitender Kumar qualified for the quarterfinals. Akhil Kumar, Jitender Kumar, A.L. Lakra, and Dinesh Kumar each won a bronze medal at the 2008 World Championship.[3]

Vijender Singh briefly reached World No.1 in the middle weight (75 kg) category class in 2009, when the International Boxing Association's (AIBA) list was updated after 2009 AIBA World Boxing Championships held in Milan, where he won India's first medal in an AIBA-WBC.[4] On 29 June 2015, Vijender Singh bid adieu to his amateur career by turning professional as he signed a multi-year agreement with Queensberry Promotions through IOS Sports and Entertainment. This ruled him out of 2016 Olympics as he no longer remained eligible to represent India.

India's Mary Kom is a six-time World Amateur Boxing champion, and the only woman boxer to have won a medal in each one of the six world championships.[5] She also became the first Indian woman boxer to get a Gold Medal at the Asian Games during the 2014 Asian Games at Incheon, South Korea.[6]

Total medals won by Indian Boxers in Major tournaments[edit]

Competition Gold Silver Bronze Total
Olympic Games 0 0 3 3
World Boxing Championships 10 9 26 45
Asian Games 9 16 32 57
Commonwealth Games 8 12 17 37
Asian Championships 30 46 68 144
Total 57 83 146 286

Notable Performance at Summer Olympics[edit]

Year Event Player Result
2000
Light heavyweight Gurcharan Singh Quarter-finals
2008
Middleweight Vijender Singh 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Flyweight Jitender Kumar Quarter-finals
Bantamweight Akhil Kumar Quarter-finals
2012
Women's flyweight Mary Kom 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Men's light flyweight Devendro Singh Quarter-finals
Men's middleweight Vijender Singh Quarter-finals
2016
Men's middleweight Vikas Krishan Yadav Quarter-finals
2020
Women's welterweight Lovlina Borgohain 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Women's middleweight Pooja Rani Quarter-finals
Men's super heavyweight Satish Kumar Quarter-finals

In popular culture[edit]

In 2014, Priyanka Chopra portrayed Mary Kom in an award winning biographical film about her life.[7]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Raja, Abhijit. "Boxing: The Rise of 'Little Cuba' in Bhiwani, India". Bleacher Report. Retrieved 2021-06-24.
  2. ↑ M, Hari Kishore (2021-06-02). "Boxing from Bhiwani, India's "mini-Cuba"". www.sportskeeda.com. Retrieved 2021-06-24.
  3. ↑ "2008 Summer Olympics Boxing Results - Beijing, China - ESPN". sports.espn.go.com. Retrieved 2015-05-04.
  4. ↑ "Vijender becomes world number one - The Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2015-05-04.
  5. ↑ "Magnificent Mary". I See India. Retrieved 2015-05-04.
  6. ↑ "MC Mary Kom delivers first boxing gold at Asian Games 2014". Retrieved 2015-05-04.
  7. ↑ "MARY KOM | British Board of Film Classification". www.bbfc.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-05-04.
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