London Olympic Boxing Star Vijender Singh

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Vijender Singh Beniwal is the famous Indian Boxer. He is the first Indian Boxer to win Medal in London Olympics 2012. Vijender is middleweight 75kg boxer. Vijender won the Bronze Medals in Asian Games 2006, Beijing Summer Olympics 2008, World Amateur Boxing championships games and also in Common wealth 2010. He bagged silver and Gold Medals in Commonwealth 2006 and also in Asian Games 2010. He is an appetite of taking Medals in all Championship games.

In the year 2009,Vijender Beniwal was ranked worlds No:1 in AIBA in middle weight category. He was awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in the same year. In 2010, he got most precious award the 'Padma Shri' for his Boxing achievements. In the 2003, he won a silver in Afro Asian.

In London 2012 Olympics, he won bronze in semi finals. Vijender Singh plays against Gausha. In first round, he got 4-3 points, at the second round both got tail points 5-5, vijender still not lost his hope , he played with full tempo to will the medal. At the end of Third or final round, he won the medal by 1 point and scored 16-17 points against Terrell. Vijender Singh beats Gausha ...
... by a solitary only one point at the semi final round. In 2008, Beijing Olympics Vijender plays against Atoev. He beats Atoev by 17-13 points then he qualified for semifinal and he won bronze in 75 kg category. In 1st round, both the boxers scored 3-3, he scored 7-5 at the 2nd and in the final round he beats the Uzbek boxer by 4 points. Atoev has 1200 points, he bagged world Championships title in 2009.

International Boxing Association has many energetic players. AIBA has top 10 ranked Boxers like Joe, Muhammad ali, Sugar,Jack, Mike, Dempsey, Julio cesar, Rocky and last of top 10 but not the least one boxer willie Pep. Vijender Singh is one of the top ranked player in AIBA in the middel weight category. Vijender Singh profile listed in AIBA ranking from 2009 to 2010 after he bagged bronze medal in Championship Game. In the light weight category Amandeep Singh was placed at 11th rank with 600 points by Boxing Association. Vikas Krishan was placed at 17th ranked with at the Youth World Championships in 2010. Dinesh Silver Medalist in Asian games was in 12th rank at the light weight division with 650 points. At last, Paramjeet Samota took 34th rank in the heavy weight division of 91kg.