Honorary Captain Hawa Singh (16 December 1937 in

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, Haryana – 14 August 2000, in

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, who dominated Indian and Asian amateur boxing for a decade in his weight class. He won the

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gold medal in Heavyweight category in consecutive editions of the games in the 1966 Asiad and the 1970 Asiad both held in Bangkok, Thailand - a feat unmatched by any Indian boxer to date (August 2008). He won the National Championships in the Heavyweight category a record 11 consecutive times — from 1961 to 1972.

Biography

Hawa Singh Sheoran was born in a Jat Family now Haryana in 1937. He enrolled in the Indian Army in 1956, and became the champion of the ''Western Command'' in 1960 by defeating the defending champion, Mohabbat Singh. He won the National Championships for 11 straight years from 1961 to 1972, winning gold medals at the

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and the

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in Bangkok. He was awarded the

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, India's highest sporting award, in 1966.. Biopic on Hawa Singh will be produced by Kamlesh Singh Kushwaha and

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. After retiring, he took up coaching and was the co-founder of the

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which produced a slew of Indian boxers in the 1990s and 2000s (decade), including Olympic medallist Vijender Singh. He was awarded the Dronacharya Award in 1999. He died suddenly in

on 14 August 2000 – 15 days before he was to have received the Dronacharya Award. On 4 February 2020, Salman Khan announced a biopic featuring

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as Hawa Singh.

Notes

References

Biography of Hawa SinghIndia's highest sporting awards and those who won them, SS Gandhi, The Defence Review
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