Jitender Kumar (born 18 July 1988) is an Indian
flyweight
Flyweight is a weight class in combat sports.
Boxing
Flyweight is a class in boxing which includes fighters weighing above 49 kg (108 lb) and up to 51 kg (112 lb).
Professional boxing
The flyweight division was the last of b ...
boxer Boxer most commonly refers to:
* Boxer (boxing), a competitor in the sport of boxing
*Boxer (dog), a breed of dog
Boxer or boxers may also refer to:
Animal kingdom
* Boxer crab
* Boxer shrimp, a small group of decapod crustaceans
* Boxer snipe ee ...
. He won the bronze medal in the flyweight category at the
2006 Commonwealth Games. He represented India at the
2008 Summer Olympics in
Beijing
}
Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...
.
Career
At the 2006 Junior World Championships, he lost to future (2007) seniors world champion
Sergey Vodopyanov. At the Commonwealth Games 2006 he lost his semifinal to eventual winner
Don Broadhurst
Don Broadhurst is a retired English professional boxer who competed in the Flyweight division. He hails from Birmingham and boxed for Frank Warren's Sports Network. He held the Commonwealth super flyweight champion from 31 October ...
. At the 2nd Olympic qualifier he beat
Noman Karim
Nauman Karim is a boxer from Pakistan.
He won the bronze medal in the light flyweight (– 48 kg) division at the 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Bangkok. He also competed at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships
Th ...
, lost his semi to
Mirat Sarsembayev but won the all-important third place bout against
Godfrey Castro
Godfrey Castro (born April 20, 1985) is an amateur boxer from the Philippines who competed in the Light Flyweight (-48 kg) division at the 2006 Asian Games winning the bronze medal in a lost bout in the semifinals against Thailand's S ...
13:6 and qualified.
Beijing Olympics
At the 2008 summer Olympics, Jitender was pitted against
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...
's
Ulas Furkan Memis in the round of 32. The referee stopped the contest in the third round of the bout when Jitender led 12-3. In the round of 16, he was up against
Uzbek boxer
Tulashboy Doniyorov. In an ill-tempered bout, Jitender outscored his opponent 13-6.
However, his dream run at Beijing 2008 Olympics came to an end when he lost to
Georgy Balakshin
Georgy Ruslanovich Balakshin (russian: Георгий Русланович Балакшин; born March 6, 1980 in Antonovka, near Nyurba, Sakha Republic) is an Olympic boxer from Russia best known for winning the European title three times.
Ca ...
of
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eig ...
(11-15) in a tightly fought quarter finals match held at
Workers Indoor Arena
The Workers' Gymnasium (official name) is an indoor arena located west of the Workers' Stadium in Beijing, China. It was inaugurated in 1961 for the 26th World Table Tennis Championships.
It hosted the boxing events at the 2008 Summer Olympics a ...
on 20 August 2008. Jitender had 9 stitches in his jaw during the quarterfinal. If blood came out then the referee would stop the match and this put him under tremendous pressure. He was coached by the Indian Boxing Coach
Gurbaksh Singh Sandhu.
See also
*
Boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Flyweight
The flyweight competition was the second-lowest weight class featured in amateur boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and was held at the Workers Indoor Arena. Flyweights were limited to a maximum of 51 kilograms (112.4 lbs) in body mass.
Lik ...
*
Akhil Kumar
Akhil Kumar (born 27 March 1981) is an Indian boxer who has won several international and national boxing awards. He practices an "open guarded" boxing style. In 2005, the Indian government gave him the Arjuna Award for his achievements in int ...
*
Vijender Kumar
References
BioOlympics 2008 Bio
1988 births
Indian male boxers
Flyweight boxers
Living people
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for India
Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers of India
Boxers at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Boxers at the 2006 Asian Games
Commonwealth Games medallists in boxing
Boxers from Haryana
Asian Games competitors for India
Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
{{India-boxing-bio-stub