India's champion boxer Lovlina Borgohain has won the gold medal by defeating Kaitlin Parker of Australia in the 75 kg category of the Women's World Boxing Championship.
Lovlina gave India the fourth gold in this championship.
Before them, Nikhat Zareen, Neetu Ghanghas, and Sweety Boora also won gold medals for India.
Lovlina has been a contender for the 'BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year Award' given by BBC. She has been a nominee for the third edition of the award.
Earlier, Lovlina also won the bronze medal twice in the World Championship. He also won a bronze medal in the Tokyo Olympics.
Lovlina Borgohain was the only Indian boxer to win a medal at the Tokyo Olympics. He won a bronze medal among all the great boxers, that's even more important.
Due to the presence of Mary Kom and Amit Panghal in the Indian team, a good performance was expected. But Lovlina's bronze medal somehow saved India's honor.
Lovlina was confident about participating in the Olympic finals but she lost to world champion Busenaj in the semi-finals. In a true sense, she could not face her opponent properly and was forced to settle for a bronze medal after losing 5-0.
Winning a medal in the Olympics is the dream of every sportsperson and boxers are no different. Lovlina became the star of the country because of winning a medal in the Olympics. On her return, due to being respected in various places, she started wandering somewhere or the other.
Lovlina could not really digest the fame she got overnight after winning the bronze medal in the Olympics. The result of this was that she completely flopped in the 2022 Istanbul World Championship.
His challenge was broken in the second round itself. The Commonwealth Games matches are generally considered easy. For this reason, she was expected to win the gold medal in Birmingham, but she could not extend her challenge beyond the quarter-finals.
Success is worshiped and no stone is left unturned in criticizing those who do not achieve success.
After these poor performances, it was said that his chances were over. Meanwhile, the International Boxing Association added to her woes by eliminating Lovlina from the 69 kg category in the 2024 Paris Olympics. Now he had no choice but to move to the 75 kg category.
Lovlina says that after the Olympics she had to face many ups and downs. Moving to a higher weight category also increased the problems. But she understood that the reason for her failures is more psychological. Working on this completely changed his fortunes in the 75 kg category.
Padum Boro, the SAI coach who shaped Lovlina's early career, once said that Lovlina had the potential to become a great boxer. We have only guided him.
In the beginning, his calm mind was his biggest strength. She was never under stress and had the spirit of never giving up and this quality shows her mental strength. With this mental strength of hers, she has been able to overcome the difficulties after the Olympics.
After coming to middleweight, she appeared in the first Gujarat National Games, and winning the gold medal here increased her confidence in herself. After this, the gold medal in the Asian Championship again created the spirit of the Olympics.
The dream of any boxer is to win medals in the Olympics and World Championships. Lovlina got a medal in the World Championship in 2018.
After a year, she again came to participate in the World Championship, but this time also she could not succeed in changing the color of her medal and she had to be satisfied with the bronze medal.
Lovlina has now managed to change the color of the medal in the World Championship. It seems that if she continues to progress like this, she will be able to change the color of the medal in the Olympic Games to be held in Paris next year.
Born on October 2, 1997, in the Golaghat district of Assam, the condition of Lovlina's house was not such that she would become a boxer of this level. Father Tikne was a small businessman and used to earn 13000 rupees every month. But it was sure that he was ready to provide all possible help in realizing the daughter's dream.
Lovlina has two elder sisters, Licha and Lima. Both of them used to participate in kickboxing. Seeing them, she also started participating in kickboxing at the beginning itself. He was also selected for this game in Sai Center from school.
But their coach Padum Boro recognized his true talent and advised him to adopt boxing and this advice has given the countrymen today a boxer who won medals in the Olympics and World Championships.
In a true sense, it is the wonder of Lovlina's courage and spirit that today a girl from a small town in Assam is hoisting the Indian tricolor all over the world.
Father Tikne once brought sweets for his daughter. This sweet was wrapped in a newspaper. When Lovlina saw the newspaper after having sweets, the story of the great boxer Mohammad Ali was published in it.
Lovlina read this story with great interest. It became home in his mind that he too has to become such a boxer, who will bring laurels to the country. This dedication of his has been successful in taking him to this point today.
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