Rukhsana Parveen (born 5 May 1992) also spelled Rukhsana Perveen is a

female boxer Although women have participated in boxing for almost as long as the sport has existed, female fights have been effectively outlawed for most of boxing's history until recently, with athletic commissioners refusing to sanction or issue licenses ...

from

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. In 2016, she along with two other team mates became the first women boxers from Pakistan to compete in an international competition when they participated at the

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. She was also included in the first ever team sent to the

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Career

Parveen has stated that she was inspired to take up boxing after watching the biographical movie of the

n boxer,

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. She took up the sport in 2015 and had been coached by

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for only eight months before she was selected to participate in the

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held in

National

Representing

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, Parveen won gold in the light weight category at the First National Women Boxing Championship held in

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in 2018.

International

South Asian Games

Parveen was being coached by Shehnaz Kamal when she along with Khoushleem Bano and Sofia Javed were scouted by the

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and included into the team to compete at the

held in

. Parveen reached the semi-finals in the 60 kg category and earned a bronze medal. With this medal, she became the second Pakistani woman (after Sofia Javed) to win an international medal in boxing. At the 2019

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, Parveen repeated her performance by claiming another bronze but this time in the 64 kg category.

Asian Games

To prepare for the

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held in

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, Parveen along with five other women were part of a training camp held in the capital. Islamabad. She along with Razia Bano was then selected as part of Pakistan's first ever team to compete at the continental level where she participated in the 60 kg category. In the round of 16 she lost to the Indian boxer, Pavitra.

References

Living people 1992 births Asian Games competitors for Pakistan Boxers at the 2018 Asian Games Pakistani women boxers South Asian Games bronze medalists for Pakistan South Asian Games medalists in boxing Sportswomen from Punjab, Pakistan Women's sport in Pakistan 21st-century Pakistani sportswomen {{Pakistan-sport-bio-stub