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Ankit Khatana

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Ankit Khatana
Personal information
Born9 September 1998 (1998-09-09) (age 26)
Gurgaon district, Haryana, India
Sport
SportBoxing
Weight classLightweight (60 Kg)
Medal record
amateur boxing
Representing  India
Youth World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Budapest Lightweight
South Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2019 Kathmandu Lightweight

Ankit Khatana is an Indian amateur boxer.[1] He won the bronze medal at the 2018 Youth World Championships held in Hungary.[2] He has been a National Champion, 2019 and was a gold medalist at the 2019 South Asian Games. In International tournaments he won the bronze at the 36th Feliks Stamm International Tournament, Poland.[3][4]

Early life

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Ankit Khatana was born on 9 September 1998 in Abheypur village in Gurugram, Haryana to Sanjay Kumar, a farmer and Balesh, a homemaker.[citation needed]

Career

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Khatana started his boxing career by participating in 28th Sub Junior Men State Boxing Championship in 2013 and won the bronze medal in the 41st Junior Men Haryana State Boxing Championship 2015–16. Next he won the gold medal in the South Asian Games held in Kathmandu, Nepal.[5] He next won the silver medal in the AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships 2018.[6] In 2019, Khatana then participated in the 4th Elite men's national boxing championship held in Himachal Pradesh where he bagged a gold medal.

References

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  1. ^ "Indian Boxing Federation Boxer Details". indiaboxing.in. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
  2. ^ "Asian silver-winner Ankit Khatana in semis of world youth boxing". The New Indian Express. 27 August 2018. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
  3. ^ "South Asian Games: Ankit Khatana, Kalaivani Srinivasan lead India to six boxing gold medals". The Indian Express. 9 December 2019. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
  4. ^ "Asian medallist Ankit enters quarters of world youth boxing". Business Standard India. 25 August 2018. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
  5. ^ "South Asian Games 2019: Indian boxers punch their way to six gold medals". sportstar.thehindu.com. 9 December 2019. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
  6. ^ "4 Indians settle for bronze in world youth boxing". www.millenniumpost.in. 28 August 2018. Retrieved 17 January 2023.