India has got top quality boxers in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games

India is a strong boxing nation which country joined to the best countries of the world in the recent 15 years following their junior successes. India has got three qualified boxers for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and all of their athletes have been competed also in the London 2012 Olympic Games.
The quantity is not the same what the Indian head coach Mr. Gurbaksh Singh Sandhu was expected but the quality is of his qualified athletes is excellent. Mr. Singh Sandhu joined to the Indian national boxing team as a coach in 1993 and he delivered great results with his boxers in the last two editions of the Olympic Games in Beijing and in London. India claimed medals in both Olympic Games in boxing and has got the chance to continue this great performance in Rio de Janeiro as well.
India hosted the South Asian Games in Shillong this year and the country could join to the AIBA Pro Boxing two months ago just before the World Olympic Qualification Event. The Indian talents also delivered medals in the recent AIBA and ASBC competitions therefore the country’s future is excellent in our sport.
London 2012 Olympian Shiva Thapa was bronze medallist at the Doha 2015 AIBA World Boxing Championships but could not get an Olympic quota to Rio de Janeiro in Qatar. The 23-year-old Bantamweight class (56 kg) boxer advanced to the final of the ASBC Asian & Oceanian Confederation Boxing Championships and that result was finally delivered for him a spot for Rio. Thapa is India’s best man boxer who is focusing to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games therefore his gold medal in the South Asian Games also raised his confidence.
Manoj Kumar involved to the national team still in 2006 and reached one of his career highlight in 2010 when he claimed gold medal at the Commonwealth Games. The Light Welterweight class (64 kg) boxer was quarter-finalist in the 2011 AIBA World Boxing Championships and boxed at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Kumar is 30 now and has got valuable experiences from the big events. He earned his Olympic spot at the World Olympic Qualification Event in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Vikas Krishan Yadav is India’s super talented boxer who had amazing cadet and youth results before his elite successes. He claimed gold medal at the AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships in Baku and in the Asian Games in Guangzhou in the same year in 2010. Since then he moved up three categories to the Middleweight class (75 kg) and managed his spot for Rio in the World Olympic Qualification Event in June. ASBC Asian Confederation Boxing Championships silver medallist Vikas Krishan joined to the AIBA Pro Boxing this year and has got chance to reach one of his career highlight in Rio.