Ankit Khatana is an Indian

amateur boxer An amateur () is generally considered a person who pursues an avocation independent from their source of income. Amateurs and their pursuits are also described as popular, informal, self-taught, user-generated, DIY, and hobbyist. History ...

. 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.

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

Kathmandu Kathmandu () is the capital and largest city of Nepal, situated in the central part of the country within the Kathmandu Valley. As per the 2021 Nepal census, it has a population of 845,767 residing in 105,649 households, with approximately 4 mi ...

, Nepal. He next won the silver medal in the

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

Himachal Pradesh Himachal Pradesh (; Sanskrit: ''himācāl prādes;'' "Snow-laden Mountain Province") is a States and union territories of India, state in the northern part of India. Situated in the Western Himalayas, it is one of the thirteen Indian Himalayan ...

where he bagged a gold medal.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Khatana, Ankit Living people 1998 births Indian male boxers 21st-century Indian sportsmen Lightweight boxers Boxers from Haryana South Asian Games gold medalists for India South Asian Games medalists in boxing