TOKYO OLYMPICS-SIMRANJIT KAUR QUALIFIES AS THE FIRST PUNJABI GIRL BOXER TO PLAY OLYMPICS.
(Pic Credits :Sikhnet )
Simranjit Kaur 1995 born in village CHAKAR-Ludhiana (India) has made ripples in Punjab sports arena by her persistent achievement in the Boxing sport. She has become the first Punjabi Girl Boxer to qualify from state to play for India at Tokyo Olympics.
This month, she has won Gold medal in the ‘Cologne Boxing World Cup’ tournaments played in Germany from 17 to 19 December 2020
Simranjit Kaur was encouraged by her mother to pursue Boxing completely in tune with her elder siblings who were also into Boxing sport.Here is the complete boxing career of achievement by Simranjit Kaur:
| ACHIEVEMENTS OF SIMRANJIT KAUR
☐ INTERNATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS :- •Gold medal in ‘Cologne Boxing World Cup’ Germany from 17 to 19 December 2020. • SILVER medal in Asian and Oceania Olympic Qualifier Tournament held at Amman (Jordan) March 2020. • GOLD medal in 23rd President’s Cup open tournament Indonesia , July 2019 • BRONZE medal in Olympic Tokyo Test event (Japan) October 2019 • SILVER medal in Asian Women Boxing Championship, April, 2019 • SILVER medal in 2nd India Open International Tournament, May, 2019 • BRONZE medal In AIBA Elite Women World Boxing Championship held at New Delhi, November, 2018 • GOLD medal In 32nd ‘Ehmet Comert’ Elite Women Boxing Tournament held at Istanbul, Turkey , September,2018 • BRONZE medal In ‘CIS’ Elite Women International Boxing Tournament held at Kazakhstan, May, 2018 • BRONZE medal In Elite India Open International Tournament held at New Delhi, February, 2018 • BRONZE medal In AIBA Youth World Women Boxing Championship, held at Bulgaria, September, 2013 ☐ NATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS:- • GOLD medal In 3rd Elite Women National Boxing Championship held at Bellary, KAR , January, 2019 (Also got Best Boxer Title). • SILVER medal in 2nd Elite National Women Boxing Championship held at Rohtak (HAR) January, 2018 • GOLD medal In 1st Elite National Women Boxing Championship, held at Haridwar, UTR, November, 2016 ( Also got Best Boxer Title) • GOLD medal In 58th School National Boxing Championship ( U-19 ) held at A.P, May, 2013 • SILVER medal In 8th Youth National Women Boxing Championship, held at Patiala, 2012 • BRONZE medal in 6th Junior National Women Boxing Championship held at Patiala, 2011 • BRONZE medal in Senior Inter Zonal Boxing Championship, held at Visakhapatnam, A.P, 2012
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(PIC: Simranjit Kaur and her family at an honour function)
It is pertinent to recall that CHAKAR village of Ludhiana has acquired national fame for training girls in boxing and the trainees have been winning national as well as International laurels. In Simranjit Kaur’s success National Boxing Coach Shri G.S.Sandhu takes pride in telling about initial support provided to the Boxing Academy at village CHAKAR. (G S Sandhu won the Dronacharya Award in 1998 and was also the national coach for Vijender Singh who became the first Indian boxer to fetch an Olympic medal ).
(G.S. Sandhu -National Boxing Coach)
G S Sandhu is quite appreciative of untiring efforts of S. Ajmer Singh Sidhu and S. Baldev Singh Sidhu (NRIs),S. Davinder Singh(SP Sahib) and S Jinder Singh who all have done great service for popularizing Girls’ Boxing by providing superb coaching facilities in the Boxing academy at village CHAKAR without much of other outside financial and technical support.
Hope Punjab Government will keep its promise to give Simranjit kaur, the promised job as she belongs to a very hardworking mediocre family.
Government should support such academies with financial and technical support as these are channelising the creative energies of youth—thegolbaltalk