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Shiva Thapa (born 8 December 1993) is an Indian boxer. He is employed with Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. He is supported by
Olympic Gold Quest Olympic Gold Quest (OGQ) is a program of the Foundation for Promotion of Sports and Games, a Not for Profit (Section 25) Company, which is committed to bridging the gap between the best athletes in India and the best athletes in the world thus h ...
and Anglian Medal Hunt Company, Shiva Thapa participated in the
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,Shiva Thapa, Sumit Sangwan bag gold medals at Asian Olympic Qualifiers
''
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''. 12 April 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2012
and was the youngest Indian boxer to qualify for the Olympics. Shiva Thapa is ranked 3rd in the bantamweight category in the AIBA Men's World Ranking. He is the third Indian to clinch gold at the Asian Games. Shiva Thapa is the third Indian boxer to win a medal at the AIBA World Boxing Championships. He is now an Account Manager with Midland Credit management. Thapa has been elected as a member of the
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Athletes Committee.


Career


Early life

Shiva Thapa is the youngest of six children born to an
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father Padam Thapa, a karate instructor 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 ...
. His elder brother Gobind Thapa was an
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 ...
state-level medal winning boxer; Mike Tyson's bouts also inspired him to take the sport seriously. Shiva rose as early as 3 a.m. to balance his training and studies. Padam ensured that the monthly expenditure of was taken care of.
Olympic Gold Quest Olympic Gold Quest (OGQ) is a program of the Foundation for Promotion of Sports and Games, a Not for Profit (Section 25) Company, which is committed to bridging the gap between the best athletes in India and the best athletes in the world thus h ...
, a not-for-profit foundation to identify and support Indian athletes, decided to support the young boxer as a part of their Vision 2016 initiative. While signing Thapa, Viren Rasquinha, the chief operating officer of Olympic Gold Quest said:
Shiva is an enormous talent. He must be groomed well because he has the talent, the right attitude and the hunger to succeed. OGQ has very high hopes from Shiva and I am confident that he will become one of India's top boxing stars in the near future.


Amateur career

At the 2008 Children Asia International Sports Games that was held in Yakutsk (Russia) Shiva Thapa won a bronze medal in his category. At the same year's Haider Aliyev Cup, he won the gold medal. Owing to this performance, he was chosen to represent
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in the 52-kg category at the 2009 Junior World Boxing Championships in
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. Incidentally, Thapa was the lone international medalist from the team of seven boxers that travelled to
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. Though Thapa ended up with a bronze medal, the coach expressed his satisfaction at the boxers' performance who returned with their biggest haul of medals from this competition. At the 2010 Asian Youth Boxing Championships in
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, Thapa failed to reach the semifinals in his category. At the Second Youth World Amateur Boxing Championships, Thapa was a part of the Indian team. This competition attracted a large number of boxers because it was the only qualification event for the
2010 Summer Youth Olympics The 2010 Summer Youth Olympics ( ta, 2010 கோடைக்கால இளையோர் ஒலிம்பிக் விளையாட்டுக்கள் ms, Sukan Olimpik Belia Musim Panas 2010), officially known as the I Summer ...
. Touted to be a strong gold medalist, Thapa lost the finals and ended up with a silver medal. An injured fist during the semifinal bout left him in poor shape before the final bout. After having qualified for the Summer Youth Olympics, the Indian coach suggested Thapa with a 20-day break to recover from his injury. At the Youth Olympics, Thapa won the silver medal in the 54-kg category after losing to a Cuban boxer in the finals.


Qualification to 2012 London Olympics

In 2012 Asian Olympic Qualifiers held in
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,
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, Shiva defeated Syria's Wessam Salamana 18–11 to clinch the gold medal and qualified for
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in 56 kg category. Thapa is the youngest Indian boxer to qualify for Olympics.Shiva Thapa youngest Indian boxer to qualify for Olympics
''Deccan Herald''. 12 April 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2012
He, however, lost in the first round of the London Olympics, losing 9–14 to Mexico's Oscar Valdez Fierro in the (56 kg) Bantamweight category.


Appreciation

The
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rewarded him with . The
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awarded him with while congratulating him for his silver medal at the Youth Olympics, and government of
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awarded him 500,000 rupees cash.


2013

In July 2013, Shiva became the youngest Indian to win a gold at the Asian Confederation Boxing Championship at
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. Shiva Thapa participated in the 2013 World Boxing Championships, which was held at Almaty,
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and on his debut Shiva reached the quarterfinals of the World Championship. Thapa became one of the first boxers from India to get a
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Contract. Maneesh Bahuguna, the CEO of his managing firm, Anglian Medal Hunt Company was quoted as having said, "Shiva’s outstanding achievements made him an undisputed choice for WSB. At such a young age, he has undeviating focus and love for his sport." Shiva Thapa has been ranked 3rd in the bantamweight category in the latest AIBA Men's World Ranking. In 2013, Thapa was named 'Assamese of the Year' and was also given the ICC Sports Excellence Award.


2014

Shiva Thapa had his first bout under
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USA Knockouts against
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Ottoman's
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,
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Bronze medalist in
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. He fought the second bout against Team
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's Edgar Walth in
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. He was featured as one of the new youth leaders in
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's '2014 Power of the New'. Thapa is a consistent promoter of social causes, having participated in
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walkathons and
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. He failed to get medals in both Commonwealth Games and Asian Games losing the bout in first round and quarterfinals respectively. Contradiction arise as the chance was not provided for better boxer Balakrishna Vankala of Southern Railways to participate in the Asian Games.


2015

SHIVA Thapa became only 3rd Indian to win a medal at AIBA World Boxing Championships when he won bronze.


2016

Shiva Thapa qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympic in the Men's 56 kg event, but failed to move beyond the first round, after he lost 0–3 to the 2012 Gold medalist Robeisy Ramírez from Cuba in an upset result.


2017

Shiva Thapa won silver at 2017 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships in Tashkent after an injury-forced loss to second seed and local favourite
Elnur Abduraimov Elnur Abduraimov ( uz, Abduraimov Elnur) is an Uzbekistani professional boxer. He won bronze medal at 2015 AIBA World Boxing Championships as an amateur. He also won bronze medal at the 2015 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships, 2015 Asian Champio ...
. 2019 He won gold medal at 2019 Tokyo Olympic test event by defeating Kazakhstan's national champion and Asian bronze-winner Sanatali Toltayev 5-0.


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