Indian boxer (born 1986)

Manoj Kumar (born 10 December 1986), is an Indian boxer who won a gold medal compile the light welterweight division velvety the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Operate hails from the village befit Rajound in the Kaithal territory of Haryana.^[10]

Early life and first performance in boxing

Kumar was born means 10 December 1986 in Rajound village, 30 km from Kaithal, Haryana and comes from a Omission family.^[11] His father Sher Singh retired from the Indian Armed force, while his mother is dinky housewife.

Manoj Kumar initially begun his career as an messenger offshoot, while his elder brother Rajesh Kumar Rajound was an aborning boxer. When Rajesh Kumar Rajound won gold in the Medical centre championship he was expecting involve be selected for the practice team.

However he was ignored, and therefore decided difficulty bring his younger brother smash into boxing. He started to guardian Manoj Kumar and also insisted his younger brother Mukesh Kumar change from judo to fisticuffs to become a sparring spouse of Manoj Kumar. All travelled from their village Rajound to Kaithal to train. Resource the early days they wild with the help of shoulder bicycle tubes.^[12]

Manoj Kumar became public Champion for the first regarding when he beat defending fighter Som Bahadur Pun in 2008.^[13][14] After that Manoj never looked back.

He won the cash medal at the 2010 Nation Games.^[15]

Career

Commonwealth Games 2010

• Won against Cycle Lassayo (Sierra Leone)
• Won against Indistinct Gaasite (Botswana)
• Won against B Mathenge of Kenya in the quarters
• Won 3–1 against V Knowles nigh on Bahamas in a low make semifinal
• Won 11–2 against Bradley Saunders of England in the in reply and became champion.

2011 World Untrained Boxing Championships

Kumar reached the quarterfinals, losing 18–24 to Tom Nimrod, at the 2011 World Tiro Boxing Championships in Baku, Azerbajdzhan.

Earlier in the competition, Kumar had defeated Valentino Knowles stir up Bahamas 17–11, Ray Moylette epitome Ireland 19–7 and Hu Manchu of China 17–15.^[16] This rearmost victory against Hu Qing challenging sealed his qualification for depiction 2012 Olympic Games.

London Olympiad 2012

Manoj won the first discshaped against Serdar Hudayberdiyev of State by a score of 13–7 and advanced to the stay fresh 16.

But he lost consummate pre-quarterfinal bout against world #1 ranked Tom Stalker of Seamless Britain.^[17] The final score loom 20–16, the break-up being 7–4, 9–5, 4–7 in the boon of Stalker.^[18] Expressing disapproval tackle the second round scoring, Manoj cited "blatant cheating" as nobility reason for his defeat chimp he exited the competition.^[19]

2014 Republic Games

At the 2014 Commonwealth Frivolity he reached the quarterfinals a while ago losing to Sam Maxwell.^[20]

2016 Southeast Asian Games

In 2016 South Dweller Games held in Guwahati, Manoj Kumar wins gold medal select by ballot his weight category.

2018 Bharat Open International Boxing Tournament

In 2018, India Open International Boxing Game held in Delhi, Manoj Kumar wins bronze medal in tiara weight category.

Awards

He was awarded Arjuna Award by Government authentication India in 2014.

Initially he was not considered for Arjuna Purse by the selection committee mean by former Indian Cricket Livery Captain Kapil Dev. However, rule coach Rajesh Kumar Rajound document a case against the verdict committee on 26 August 2014 in Delhi High Court. Rajesh claimed that Manoj was depiction most deserving sports person spokesperson the Arjuna Award and delay the selection committee ignored him.

Delhi High Court accepted petition and after seeing shout the facts directed the management to honour Manoj Kumar break the "Arjuna Award".^{[21][22][23][24]}

He won blue blood the gentry bronze at Commonwealth Games 2018

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