In the Commonwealth Games 2022, star boxer Nikhat Zareen has won the gold medal in the 50 kg category women’s boxing. In the final match, she defeated Northern Ireland player Carly 5-0 in a one-sided fashion. This is India’s third medal in boxing and 48th overall at the Commonwealth Games. Apart from this, Nikhat not only won a medal in the Commonwealth Games for the first time but also won the gold medal. Let us inform that shortly before the Commonwealth Games, Nikhat won the IBA Women’s World Boxing Championship.
Nikhat Zareen performance in commonwealth games
Commonwealth Games 2022 Earlier, India’s champion boxer Nikhat Zareen defeated Helena Ismail of Mozambi in round 16 in the 50 kg category. Zareen was seen playing like a toy with her opponent and ended the match 48 seconds before in the final round. After this, Nikhat Zareen also defeated Helen Jones of experienced Wales in the next round.
In 2011, Nikhat won gold medals in Women’s Junior and Youth World Boxing Championships, followed by silver in 2014 Youth World Boxing Championships, the same year she won gold medals at the International Boxing Tournament at the National Cup in Serbia. She then went on to win a gold medal at the Senior National Women’s Boxing Championship in 2016, a silver medal at the 2019 Thailand Open Boxing Tournament and brought India to glory by winning a gold medal at the recently concluded Memorial Boxing Tournament.
Who is Nikhat Zareen
Born on June 14, 1996 in Nizamabad, Telangana, Nikhat Zareen’s father’s name is Mohammad Jameel Ahmed and mother’s name is Parveen Sultana. She has completed her elementary education from Nirmala Girls High School, Nizamabad and then Bachelor of Arts from AV College Hyderabad. Please tell that boxing Nikhat has been taught by his father Jameel Ahmed. But after this, in the year 2009, Dronacharya learned boxing at the Visakhapatnam Center of the Sports Authority of India under the award-winning coach IV Rao, and a year later, she was awarded the Golden Best Boxer Award in 2010 at the Erode National Championship. After this Nikhat did not look back.
