Pinki Rani Jangra is a flyweight Indian boxer from Hisar, Haryana. Pinki is referred to as the "Giant Killer' for her accomplishments in boxing. She has been awarded silver medals in the 2011 National Games of India and also at the 2013 and the 2013 National competitions of Flyweight (51kgs) division.
She was the bronze medalist at the Commonwealth Games in 2014. Pinki also took home gold in the President's Cup International Boxing in Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia in the year 2015. Pinki was the sole Indian boxer to win Gold in the Arafura Games.
Domestic Career
Pinki became famous to people who do not watch boxing when she knocked out London Olympic Games bronze medalist and six-time World Champion Mary Kom in the National Boxing Championship 2009 and Commonwealth Games 2014 qualification trial.
Pinki also defeated the five-time Asian Champion and World Champion Laishram Sarita Devi at the National Games and National Boxing Championship 2011.Domestic Victories
Pinki Rani Jangra took home her first Federation Cup Women Boxing Championship that was held in Erode, Tamil Nadu in 2009. The following year, she took home the Gold in the N.C. Sharma Memorial Federation Cup Women Boxing Championship, Nainital.
The S.H.N.C. Sharma Memorial Federation Cup Women Boxing Championship, Uttarakhand in 2010-11, Pinki bagged the gold. Pinki repeated her feat in her 9th Senior Women Haryana State Boxing Championship, Panipat, in 2010.
The 10th Senior Women Haryana State Boxing Championship that was that was staged in Mehandergarh, Jangra won Gold in the year 2011. She also won gold at her participation in the 7th Senior Women North India Boxing Championship, Himachal Pradesh. She also won gold in the fourth Inter-Zonal Women National Boxing Championship in Visakhapatnam in 2012.
National Victories
The boxer was awarded gold at the 34th National Games which were held in Jamshedpur in the year 2011. In November 2012, at the 13th Senior Women's National Boxing Championship in Guwahati she was awarded the Gold.
2014 was another fantastic time for this athlete at Nationals in which she bagged two gold medals. The first came took place at the All India Inter-Railway Boxing Championships, Agra in March and another in the 1st Monnet Women Elite National Boxing Championship in Raipur. In 2015, she repeated her feats of brilliance during the All India Inter-Railway Boxing Championship, Bilaspur, by bagging another Gold in February of 2015.
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