Nikhat Zareen becomes fifth Indian woman to win world boxing gold | Boxing News

The 25-year-old boxer from the southern Telangana state beat Thailand’s Jitpong Jutamas at Ladies’s World Boxing Championships in Istanbul.

A 25-year-old boxer from the southern Indian state of Telangana has change into the fifth Indian lady to win a gold medal in a world championship.

Nikhat Zareen on Thursday beat Thailand’s Jitpong Jutamas within the 52kg flyweight class on the Ladies’s World Boxing Championships held at Istanbul, Turkey.

As the brand new world flyweight champion’s title was known as out, Zareen punched her hand within the air, hugged her opponent and broke into tears.

“It’s lastly right here. The fruits of years of onerous work and perseverance,” she tweeted on Friday. “India, this one’s for you. We did it, collectively.”

𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐈𝐎𝐍! 🥇

It is lastly right here. The fruits of years of hardwork and perseverance. India, this one’s for you. We did it, collectively🔥#WorldBoxingChampionship#IBAWWC2022 🥊🥇🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/JK5yhxblTy

— Nikhat Zareen (@nikhat_zareen) May 20, 2022

The previous junior world champion is the fifth Indian lady boxer after MC Mary Kom, Sarita Devi, Jenny RL and Lekha KC to win a gold on the world championships.

In 2019, when Zareen requested for a good trial in opposition to India’s legendary boxer Mary Kom after being denied an opportunity to compete within the trials for the Tokyo Olympics, the latter had famously requested: “Who’s Nikhat Zareen?”

Three years later, Zareen is a world champion – profitable India’s first gold since Mary Kom gained it in 2018.

After her win on Thursday, Zareen informed a information convention that she would dedicate the medal to all of the countrymen who supported her all through her profession.

Zareen additionally mentioned it was her dream to development on Twitter.

“Am I trending on Twitter? It was all the time my dream to be a development on Twitter and to attain one thing for my nation on the world degree is the most important motivation,” she mentioned.

A younger lady from Nizamabad does extra for Indian pleasure and glory than all of the pseudo nationalists who pollute my timeline with their vicious diatribes in opposition to minorities. Salute you Nikhat Zareen on profitable gold on the world boxing championship. Go lady, Go 🇮🇳! pic.twitter.com/jCTiZ52kz2

— Rajdeep Sardesai (@sardesairajdeep) May 19, 2022

The Muslim boxer, who hails from a middle-class household in Telangana’s Nizamabad city, mentioned she needed to overcome varied odds to carve out a distinct segment for herself in boxing.

“I needed to work onerous and overcome hurdles together with discuss that boxing will not be for girls. I needed to inform those who nothing will occur to my face and my magnificence might be intact,” she mentioned final yr throughout the launch of a marketing campaign by international sportswear big Adidas.

“These very phrases challenged me and I wished to go on the market and show that boxing doesn’t care whether or not you’re a man or a lady. It’s the will and aspiration that ought to matter. Boxing for me is extra to do with the perspective and my sense of pleasure.”

Punching her method by way of Islamophobia, misogyny, and a shoulder harm, Nikhat Zareen from Nizamabad is now a WORLD CHAMPION! That too in her first try. 💪💪💪 pic.twitter.com/sCBd7GHP2b

— Karan Tripathi 🏳️‍🌈 (@TripathiGee) May 19, 2022

Zareen joined boxing on the age of 13 in 2010. Inside six months, she gained a gold within the state championship. Solely a yr later, she gained the gold within the 2011 World Junior and Youth Championships for women in Antalya, Turkey.

Zareen’s household is elated along with her historic win on Thursday, once more in Turkey.

“To win a gold on the earth championships is one thing which can act as an inspiration to Muslim women as properly every lady within the nation to goal to attain greater in life. A child, the place he’s boy or lady, has to make their very own method and Nikhat has paved her personal method,” Zareen’s father Jameel Ahmed was quoted as saying by The Indian Specific.

In a tweet, Prime Minister Narendra Modi showered reward on Zareen.

“Our boxers have made us proud! Congratulations to Nikhat Zareen for a implausible gold medal win on the Ladies’s World Boxing Championship,” Modi wrote on Twitter.

“I additionally congratulate Manisha Moun and Parveen Hooda for his or her Bronze medals in the identical competitors.”

“One for the historical past books,” tweeted the Indian Boxing Federation. “Nikhat Zareen continues her golden streak … Effectively accomplished, world champion.”