ASBC Heroes – India’s ASBC Asian Women’s Youth Champion Vinka achieved medals in various countries
India’s Vinka won the title of the women’s light welterweight (64kg) at the Ulaanbaatar 2019 ASBC Asian Youth Boxing Championships where she was one of the favorites before the start of the continental event. India’s Vinka is our ASBC Hero from 2019 who achieved several other titles during her career.
Vinka was born in Panipat, Haryana on 16th of June in 2002 and began boxing at the age of 13 in 2015. She trains with coach Mr. Sunil Kumar at the Shivaji Stadium in Panipat and the orthodox style boxer prepares around 25 hours per week. She had already more than 50 contests in the recent five years and Vinka is ready to continue in the top level of boxing.
Vinka won the Haryana State Women’s Sub-Junior Championships in 2016 which was her first highlight. She was involved to their female junior national team in 2018 and claimed a gold and after a bronze medal in two Serbian international competitions. Vinka won the title also at the 2018 Indian Women’s Junior National Championships.
Haryana’s U17 National Games silver medallist and Junior National Champion Vinka had to beat four boxers to get the title of the women’s light welterweight (64kg) but she was in top form in the city of Rudrapur and defeated another favourite Menaka Devi as well for the gold. Vinka proved her skills are enough to get medals also in the international stage in spite of the fact she was only 16 by the time of the national event.
Following her Youth National title, Vinka claimed bronze medal at the Golden Gloves of Vojvodina Youth Tournament where she was defeated by Kazakhstan’s Balzhan Askar in a tough semi-final. She achieved also bronze medal in the 2019 Boxam Women’s Youth Tournament in Spain and after those results, she arrived to the venue of the Ulaanbaatar ASBC Asian Youth Boxing Championships. Vinka eliminated Chinese Taipei’s Tsui Hsueh Tzu in the quarter-finals of the light welterweight (64kg) in Ulaanbaatar which she won by RSC. The Indian talent had to meet with Kazakhstan’s Balzhan Askar once again and she has done a revenge due to her previous loss in Serbia. Vinka had another tough job in the final of the event against China’s Haini Mulataiaili but she managed to win that close contest winning the Asian title.
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