Ankit Khatana is an Indian

amateur boxer Amateur boxing is a variant of boxing practiced at the collegiate level, at the Olympic Games, Pan American Games and Commonwealth Games, as well as many associations. Amateur boxing bouts are short in duration, comprising three rounds of three ...

. He won the bronze medal at the 2018 Youth World Championships held in Hungary. He has been a National Champion, 2019 and was a gold medalist at the

2019 South Asian Games The 2019 South Asian Games, officially the XIII South Asian Games, was a major multi-sport event which was originally slated to be held from 9 to 18 March 2019 in Kathmandu and Pokhara, Nepal. However, the dates were postponed and the event was ...

. In International tournaments he won the bronze at the 36th Feliks Stamm International Tournament, Poland.

Early life

Ankit Khatana was born on 9 September 1998 in Abheypur village in

Gurugram Gurgaon (pronunciation: �ʊɽɡãːw, officially named Gurugram (pronunciation: �ʊɾʊɡɾaːm, is a city located in the northern Indian state of Haryana. It is situated near the Delhi–Haryana border, about southwest of the nationa ...

Haryana Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land ...

to Sanjay Kumar, a farmer and Balesh, a homemaker.

Career

Khatana started his boxing career by participating in 28th Sub Junior Men State Boxing Championship in 2013 and won the bronze medal in the 41st Junior Men Haryana State Boxing Championship 2015–16. Next he won the gold medal in the

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held in

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, Nepal. He next won the silver medal in the

AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships The IBA Youth World Boxing Championships and the IBA Junior World Boxing Championships are amateur boxing competitions organised by the International Boxing Association (IBA), the sport's governing body, for "Youth" competitors—ages 17 or 18 ...

2018. In 2019, Khatana then participated in the 4th Elite men's national boxing championship held in

Himachal Pradesh Himachal Pradesh (; ; "Snow-laden Mountain Province") is a state in the northern part of India. Situated in the Western Himalayas, it is one of the thirteen mountain states and is characterized by an extreme landscape featuring several peak ...

where he bagged a gold medal.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Khatana, Ankit Living people 1998 births Indian male boxers Lightweight boxers Boxers from Haryana South Asian Games gold medalists for India South Asian Games medalists in boxing