Subedar Major Satish Kumar (born 4 May 1989) is an Indian amateur boxer and a junior commissioned officer (JCO) of the

Indian Army The Indian Army is the land-based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. The President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Army, and its professional head is the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), who is a four- ...

. He won the bronze medal at the

2014 Asian Games The 2014 Asian Games ( ko, 2014년 아시아 경기대회/2014년 아시안 게임, Icheon sip-sa nyeon Asia gyeonggi daehoe/Icheon sip-sa nyeon Asian Geim), officially known as the 17th Asian Games ( ko, 제17회 아시아 경기대회/제17회 ...

at Incheon in the

super heavyweight Super heavyweight is a weight class in combat sports and competitive bodybuilding. Boxing In amateur boxing, the super heavyweight division is a weight class division for fighters weighing in excess of 91 kilograms (200 pounds). Introduced for th ...

category and silver at the

2018 Commonwealth Games The 2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games and also known as Gold Coast 2018, was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth that were held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, bet ...

. He is the first Indian boxer to qualify for the Olympics in the super heavyweight category.

Early life

Born to a farmer in Bulandshahr who had four sons, Satish Kumar wanted to join the army like his elder brother did. He did so in 2008 as a Sepoy and moved to Ranikhet, where he was spotted for his height during a boxing camp and was urged to give the sport a try.

Awards

He was awarded the

Arjuna Award The Arjuna Award, officially known as Arjuna Awards for Outstanding Performance in Sports and Games, is the second-highest sporting honour of India, the highest being the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award. The award is named after Arjuna, one ...

by the

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in 2018.

References

External links

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1989 births Living people Indian male boxers Asian Games medalists in boxing Asian Games bronze medalists for India Boxers at the 2014 Asian Games Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games Boxers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers of India Commonwealth Games medallists in boxing Commonwealth Games silver medallists for India Boxers at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Boxers from Uttar Pradesh People from Bulandshahr Super-heavyweight boxers Recipients of the Arjuna Award Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games {{India-boxing-bio-stub