Lovlina Borgohain (born 2 October 1997) is an Indian

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. She won a bronze medal at the

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in the women's welterweight event, becoming only the third Indian boxer to win a medal at the Olympics. She won gold medal at

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and bronze medals at the

2018 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships The 2018 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships was held at KD Jadav Indoor Stadium at New Delhi, India and took place between 15 and 24 November 2018. In the finals of the light flyweight category Mary Kom of India beat Ukrainian boxer Hana O ...

and the 2019 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships. Borgohain is the first female athlete and the second boxer from

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 ...

to represent the state in the

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. In 2020, she became the sixth person from

to receive

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Early life

Borgohain was born on 2 October 1997, and hails from the

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. Her parents are Tiken and Mamoni Borgohain. Her father Tiken is a small-scale businessman and struggled financially to support his daughter's ambition. A former

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practitioner, Lovlina, as the youngest of three sister-siblings, got interested in boxing after seeing her twin sisters, Licha and Lima take up kickboxing and followed the same trail. The Sports Authority of India held trials at her high school Barpathar Girls High School, where Borgohain participated. She was noticed and selected by renowned Coach Padum Chandra Bodo at the SAI STC Guwahati from 2012 to learn basics of boxing and to achieve the excellence in boxing. She was later coached by Sandhya Gurung.

Career

She won gold medal at the 1st India Open International Boxing Tournament in

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and silver medal at the 2nd India Open International Boxing Tournament 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 ...

. Borgohain's career's biggest break came when she was selected to participate in the 2018 Commonwealth Games welterweight boxing category. However, her announcement was the subject of controversy after it was found out that she hadn't received any official intimation about her selection. She found out about her selection after the story broke at a major media outlet. At the Commonwealth Games, she lost to

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from the UK in the quarterfinals. Sandy Ryan eventually went on to win gold in that category. Her selection in the

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was attributed to her success at the inaugural India Open – an international boxing championship held in February 2018 – where she won a gold medal in the welterweight category. She had also won the bronze medal at the Asian Boxing Championships in Vietnam in November 2017 and the bronze medal at the President's Cup held in Astana in June 2017. She later won a silver medal at the Ulaanbaatar Cup in Mongolia in June 2018 and a bronze medal at the 13th International Silesian Championship in Poland in September 2018.

2018 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships

She represented India for the first time at the AIBA Women's World Boxing Championship, held in

, where she won the bronze medal in the

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category on 23 November 2018.

2019 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships

In 2019, Borgohain got selected for her second

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, Russia, from 3–13 October without trials. Borgohain defeated Morocco's Bel Ahbib Oumayma 5–0 in her round of 16 bout. She was defeated by China's Yang Liu in the 69 kg category semi-final by 2-3 and had to settle with the bronze medal.

2020 Olympics qualifying event

In March 2020, Borgohain secured the Olympic berth in the 69 kg with a 5–0 win over Maftunakhon Melieva of

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in the 2020 Asia & Oceania Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament. With this, she has become the first ever sportswoman from Assam to qualify for the

. She lost to the

silver-medallist

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in a unanimous 5-0 verdict and signed off with a bronze medal at the Asian Olympic Qualifiers. Borgohain trained at

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, Italy from 15 October to 5 December 2020 for World Olympic qualifying event scheduled for May – June 2021.

2020 Tokyo Olympics

Borgohain is the first female athlete and the second boxer from

to represent the state in the

. She defeated the German boxer

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in the primary rounds and on 30 July 2021, she defeated Taiwan's

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and which assured her a medal. India women's boxing team head coach Raffaelle Bergamesco told ''The Times of India'' in an interview, "She wanted to win and that was a fundamental change. Lovlina is a girl who is very attached to her family, to her fellow citizens. I tried to motivate her by shouting that the whole of India was watching her and she could write her own story" In the semifinals she lost to the world no. 1 and eventual gold medalist

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and took home the bronze medal.

IBA Women's World Boxing Championships

2022

She lost to Cindy Ngamba of Fair Chance Team 1-4 in the pre-quarter finals. Borgohain had again defeated former world champion

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in the first round.

2023

Competing in the 75kgs category, Lovlina won the gold medal defeating Australia's Caitlin Anne Parker. Borgohain took the first round 3-2, while the second round went in favour of Parker by 4-1. The winner was decided in the third round through Bout Review System.

Awards and recognition

* Civilian awards ** Asom Sourav, 2nd highest civilian award of

, 2021 * National awards **

, presented by President

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virtually for her outstanding performance in boxing. **

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in 2021, highest sporting honour of India. * Rewards For winning the bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics - * from the

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. * from the

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. * from the

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. * from the

Assam Pradesh Congress Committee Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (or Assam PCC) was formed in June 1921. Its headquarters is at Rajiv Bhavan in GS Road Guwahati. Kuladhar Chaliha was the first elected president and Chabilal Upadhyaya was the first selected president of the com ...

Personal life

In 2019, Borgohain signed up with sports management firm Infinity Optimal Solutions (IOS) which will handle her endorsements and commercial interests. In 2022, Borgohain was appointed as deputy superintendent of police by

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. In May 2022, she was elected as the chair and a voting member on the Board of Directors for

International Boxing Association (amateur) The International Boxing Association (IBA), previously known as the Association Internationale de Boxe Amateur (AIBA), is an independent sport organization that sanctions amateur (Olympic-style) boxing matches and awards world and subordinate cha ...

Athletes' Committee.

References

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Early life

Career

2018 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships

2019 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships

2020 Olympics qualifying event

2020 Tokyo Olympics

IBA Women's World Boxing Championships

2022

2023

Awards and recognition

Personal life

See also

References

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