Gold(en) Day !

     Today’s ambitious generation of India always try to explore new ways to establish themselves career wise and certainly have successfully prove themselves correct whether it is sports, education ,information technology or entrepreneurship. With every passing day they are touching new heights. In the past youth had very less and limited opportunities but today is the age of globalization so the sky is unlimited to explore only necessity is of passion, burring desire to achieve something then impossible word have no place in their lexicon as impossible word itself says –
                 Impossible – I M Possible
in the past our youth motivated from Hockey or Cricket to opt as career because in both these sports Indians were achieving international recognition and able to earn money handsomely which is enough for young buddies to choose these sports as career ,now it is visible in other sports also that Indians are doing wonders like Chess, Shooting, Badminton, Tennis, Snooker and Boxing to name few sports, but Boxers since Vijender Singh comes into limelight in Beijing Olympics by winning Silver Medal and then after his performance in Boxing Championship held in Milan year 2009 he becomes world’s number one Boxer in 75 kilogram middle weight category in the rankings of Association Internationale de Boxe Amateur(A.I.B.A.). We keep on hearing, reading and watching news of our Boxers are doing consistently good in the international tournaments.
    Just recently in two different level international tournaments our Boxers played really very very good and won medals in different categories of bouts. Asian Youth Boxing Championship which held in Tehran capital of Iran our two Boxer won gold medals, three won silver medals and four won bronze medals whose detail are as follow –
Gold Medalists  –

1. Vikas Krishnan (60 kilogram)
2. Naveen (81 Kilogram)

Silver Medalists –

1. Devendro Singh Lessram(48 kilogram)
2. V. Naga Arjun(57 Kilogram )
3. Sumit Saagwaan(75 kilogram)

Bronze Medalists -

1. Shri Niwas Subroto(51 kilogram)
2. Harpal Singh(64 kilogram) 
3.  Manoj Kumar(91 Kilogram)
4. Rajat(plus 91 kilogram)

      The 5th Commonwealth Boxing Championship had witnessed over one hundred Boxers from fourteen countries in over 100 bouts from 12th to17th March, 2010 at Talkatora Stadium had compete for this prestigious title. The Boxers were divided in ten weight categories of 49 kilograms, 52 kilograms, 56 kilograms, 60 kilograms, 64 kilograms, 69 kilograms, 75 kilograms, 81 kilograms, 91 kilograms, + 91 kilograms. In this Championships Indian made history and won first time six gold medals in the Commonwealth Boxing Championship. In the Commonwealth Boxing Championship Indians two best participation years before 2010 were-
2007 –One Gold; Two Silver; Three Bronze
2005- Four Gold; Three Silver
Winner of Six Gold Medalists in the fifth Commonwealth Boxing Championships are –

1. Amandeep(49 Kilogram) Light fly weight category
2. Surenjay Singh(52 Kilogram ) Fly weight category
3. Jai Bhagwan(60 Kilogram ) light weight category
4. Vijendar Singh(75 Kilogram) Middle weight category
5. Dinesh Kumar(81 Kilogram) light heavy weight category
6. Paramjit Samota (91 Kilogram) Super heavy weight category

      So it is really proud and historic achievement not only for Indian boxing but also for Indian sports. If sports person gets funds and training then certainly with talents and hard work can do wonder in International Circuit. The way Indian Boxers are playing it won’t be surprise that soon in very near future Boxing will become as popular as cricket in India.