Dinesh Kumar (born 25 August 1988) is an Indian amateur boxer from

Bhiwani Bhiwani is a city and a municipal council in Bhiwani district in the state of Haryana. Besides being a seat of spiritual learning, the city is at the centre of regional politics and hometown of three former Haryana chief ministers: Bansi Lal ...

Haryana Haryana () is a States and union territories of India, state located in the northern part of India. It was carved out after the linguistic reorganisation of Punjab, India, Punjab on 1 November 1966. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with les ...

who competed at the

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at light-heavyweight. He is coached by Jagdish Singh.Dinesh Kumar
sports-reference.com At the first Olympic qualifier he lost to

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7:25, at the second he KOd two fighters to qualify even though he lost the final to Mehdi Ghorbani. In Beijing he lost his first bout against

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1st Qualifier

India Today article
1988 births Living people Indian male boxers Light-heavyweight boxers Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers for India Boxers from Haryana People from Bhiwani Recipients of the Arjuna Award Asian Games silver medalists in boxing Boxers at the 2010 Asian Games Asian Games silver medalists for India Asian Games boxers for India Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games {{India-boxing-bio-stub