Vijender Singh Beniwal (born October 29, 1985) (also known as Vijender Singh or Vijender Beniwal) is an Olympic Medalist Indian boxer from Kalwas village, Bhiwani district in Haryana. He belongs to a Hindu family of Jat ethnicity. Vijender’s early days were spent in his village where he did his schooling, after which he received a bachelor’s degree from a local college in Bhiwani. He practiced boxing at the Bhiwani Boxing Club where coach Jagdish Singh recognized his talent and encouraged him to take to professional boxing.
Vijender went on to compete at the sub-junior nationals where he won a silver medal for two years in succession. Having won medals in different competitions at the national level, Vijender was picked to train and compete at several international level competitions such as the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics and the 2006 Commonwealth Games. At the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, he won the bronze medal after losing the semifinal bout against Kazakhstan's Bakhtiyar Artayev. At the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, he defeated Carlos Góngora of Ecuador 9–4 in the quarterfinals which guaranteed him a bronze medal—the first ever Olympic medal for an Indian boxer.
After this historic win, Vijender was felicitated with a number of awards, including the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award—India's highest sporting honour. In 2009, he participated at the World Amateur Boxing Championships where he won the bronze medal. In the same year, the International Boxing Association (AIBA) announced Vijender as the top-ranked boxer in its annual middleweight category list with 2800 points. He is credited for bringing back the sport of boxing into the limelight in India.
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Swedish Boxing Star
From a childhood spent in war torn Afghanistan to the rough and tumble world of mixed martial arts (MMA), Sweden's Malik Mawlayi has learned how to deal with the fighting
Sweden may have been late to embrace MMA, that hasn't stopped Mawlayi, whose nickname is "Natural Born Killer," from emerging as an international MMA star
The 31-year-old most recently made a splash at Martial Combat, a new MMA show in Singapore arranged by ESPN Star Sport, Asia’s primary sports broadcaster, when he won a Martial Combat Superfight in June – a fight broadcast in 24 Asian countries.
Mawlayi's journey out of Afghanistan began when the government at the time suspected his father, who was a doctor at Kabul University, of actively opposing the regime.As an MMA fighter, he has had time to develop the tools he needs to defend himself in the cage In 2005, Mawlayi had his first MMA fight, putting together a string of submission wins leading him to claim the title of Scandinavian shooto champion.
Sweden may have been late to embrace MMA, that hasn't stopped Mawlayi, whose nickname is "Natural Born Killer," from emerging as an international MMA star
The 31-year-old most recently made a splash at Martial Combat, a new MMA show in Singapore arranged by ESPN Star Sport, Asia’s primary sports broadcaster, when he won a Martial Combat Superfight in June – a fight broadcast in 24 Asian countries.
Mawlayi's journey out of Afghanistan began when the government at the time suspected his father, who was a doctor at Kabul University, of actively opposing the regime.As an MMA fighter, he has had time to develop the tools he needs to defend himself in the cage In 2005, Mawlayi had his first MMA fight, putting together a string of submission wins leading him to claim the title of Scandinavian shooto champion.
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