Sonia Chahal is an Indian amateur boxer. She is a silver medallist 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 ...

Early life and career

Chahal was born in Nimri village of Haryana state's Bhiwani district. She is the younger of two children of Mr. Jai Bhagwan, a farmer, and homemaker mother Neelam. She started boxing in 2011 after taking inspiration from

Kavita Chahal Kavita Chahal (born 8 April 1985) is a 5' 9" tall heavyweight Indian female boxer and recipient of the highest world ranking 2 from 2012 to 2014 (AIBA Ranking - 11 in 2016) from the village Nimri which resides in the Bhiwani district, Haryana. ...

. And after six months of training at the

Bhiwani Boxing Club The Bhiwani Boxing Club in Bhiwani in the state of Haryana, India came to the limelight in 1982 as four of the five boxers who represented India at the 2000 Summer Olympics are from Bhiwani. Sports Authority of India coach and boxer Jagdish Sin ...

under the coach Jagdish Singh, she won silver medal at the school-level national championships in the same year. She continued her training in Bhiwani for the next three years. Chahal won silver medal in the featherweight division (54–57 kg) of the

after losing in the final to Germany's

Ornella Wahner Ornella Wahner (born 19 February 1993) is a German amateur boxer who won gold medals at the 2011 Youth and Junior World Championships and the 2018 World Championships, defeating Sonia Chahal 4–1 in the final to become the first German amat ...

References

Living people Featherweight boxers Indian women boxers Boxers from Haryana People from Bhiwani district AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships medalists 21st-century Indian women 1997 births {{India-boxing-bio-stub