Ankushita Boro is an Indian boxer. She won

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at the 2017 AIBA Youth Women's World Boxing Championships. She won gold medal in the first North East Olympic Games 2018,

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. She won

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at the 2nd India Open International Boxing Tournament and a gold at the 3rd

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(KYIG) 2020, both held in

Guwahati Guwahati (, ; formerly rendered Gauhati, ) is the biggest city of the Indian state of Assam and also the largest metropolis in northeastern India. Dispur, the capital of Assam, is in the circuit city region located within Guwahati and is the ...

. She also won 'The Best Boxer' title in the 2017 AIBA Youth Women's World Boxing Championships. She won

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at the 5th Elite Women's National Boxing Championship in Hisar.

Personal life

Boro was born to Rakesh Kumar, who is a primary school teacher, on

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and Ranjita, who is currently working with an

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. She hails from Meghai Jarani, a village in

Sonitpur district Sonitpur district ron: ˌsə(ʊ)nɪtˈpʊə or ˌʃə(ʊ)nɪtˈpʊəis an administrative district in the state of Assam in India. The district headquarters is located at Tezpur. Etymology The name of the is derived from a mythological story fo ...

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

. They helped Ankushita travel 165 km for the trials at the

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(SAI) centre in

Golaghat Golaghat ( ''Gʊlaɡʱat'' ) one of the largest subdivisions of the Indian state of Assam, later elevated to the position of a full–fledged district headquarter on 5 October 1987, is a city and a municipality and the seat of administrative ...

. She trained from SAI Centre Golaghat with Trideep Bora as her coach. For Boro, boxing started by accident, when a friend asked her to compete in a local tournament, when she was just 12. She travelled 165 km for trials at the

(SAI), centre in

. After the selection at the SAI, was under the guidance of coach Trideep Bora. She learnt better technique from

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coach Raffael Bergamasco. As of November 2017, Boro is a student of Dakshin Junior College in

. Boro married her longtime coach Trideep Borah at

Tezpur Tezpur () is a city and urban agglomeration in Sonitpur district, Assam state, India. Tezpur is located on the banks of the river Brahmaputra, northeast of Guwahati, and is the largest of the north bank cities with a population exceeding 100, ...

Achievements

She won her district's Best Boxer Award in 2013, and a gold medal for her state in 2015. In early 2017, she earned a

in the National Youth Championship. In both the Balkan Youth International Boxing Championship (

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) and Ahmet Comert Championships (

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), she won a

2017 AIBA Youth Women's World Boxing Championships

On 26 November 2017, she earned a

in the light welterweight (64 kilogram) category at the AIBA World Youth Women's Boxing Championship, with a unanimous win over Turkey's Aluc Cagla. Interestingly, she beat Aluc Cagla of

in the first round, against whom she lost at the Ahmet Comret tournament and Rebecca Nicoli of

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, against whom she lost in

. Besides being one of India's five pugilists, who advanced to the finals, she was also adjudged the best boxer of the tournament.

4th Elite Women's National Boxing Championship

In December 2019, Boro participated at the 4th Elite Women's National Boxing Championship held in

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from 2–8 December 2019. She lost to Railways' Pwilao Basumatary in the finals for 64 kg title by 3-2.

Other achievements

In 2018, chief minister of

Sarbananda Sonowal Sarbananda Sonowal ( Assamese: সৰ্বানন্দ সোণোৱাল / IPA: xɔɹbanɔndɔ xʊnʊwal; born 31 October 1962) is an Indian politician from Assam who is the current Cabinet Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways and ...

appointed Boro as the brand ambassador of

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scheme,

Kamrup Metropolitan district Kamrup Metropolitan district is one of the 35 districts in Assam state in north-eastern India. It was carved out of the erstwhile undivided Kamrup district in 2003 and covers an area equivalent to the area under the jurisdiction of the Guwahati ...

References

External links

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