{"id":91590,"date":"2023-11-15T07:54:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T02:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=91590"},"modified":"2023-11-15T07:54:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T02:24:53","slug":"boxer-mandeep-hoping-second-consecutive-national-games-medal-could-help-her-become-self-reliant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=91590","title":{"rendered":"Boxer Mandeep hoping second consecutive National Games medal could help her become self-reliant"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Goa Khabar:<\/strong>\u00a0Former world junior champion boxer Mandeep Kaur is hoping that a second consecutive National Games silver medal would open up doors for her recruitment in Punjab Police and end her dependence on her father\u2019s farm earnings to fund her.<\/p>\n

A two-time gold medallist at the Inter-University Games, and a Khelo India University Games gold medallist in 2023, Mandeep had bagged a silver last year in Gujarat and repeated that feat in the 37th National Games at the Peddem Indoor Stadium.<\/p>\n

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In the final, she went down against Haryana\u2019s Manisha Moun in the Featherweight category.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a tough journey, especially when I have to keep going back to my father asking for money for supplements. Whatever pocket money I get from my family is exhausted in diet. It is difficult when you don\u2019t have any sponsors to back you. But then life is all about hopes, and I hope the doors open for me after these National Games,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Mandeep, who hails from Chakar village near Ludhiana which is also the native place of Tokyo Olympian Simranjit Kaur Baath, fell in love with the sport at the age of seven. But her father\u2019s financial condition made it difficult for him to pay for her gloves or training equipment. Sher-e-Punjab Sports Academy then came forward to support her and Mandeep hasn\u2019t looked back since then.<\/p>\n

The youngster, who had joined the academy after following in the footsteps of her elder brother Jagwinder Singh, won the 2011 and 2012 National Sub-junior titles, before picking up a gold medal in the 4th Junior Nations Boxing Cup held in Serbia in 2015.<\/p>\n

After the junior world championship gold, Mandeep was selected to train under Dronacharya awardee Cuban coach Blas Iglesias Fernandez at PIS, Mohali. \u201cSimranjit and I train at the same centre in Mohali under Fernandez sir. There are many boxers from Punjab and across the country who come and train at the academy, where thankfully I don\u2019t have to worry about diet when I am there,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

With Parveen Hooda already sealing a quota place for the 2024 Paris Olympics in the Feather weight division, Mandeep is now eyeing a gold at the upcoming senior national championships, to present her case for inclusion in the national camp.<\/p>\n

Mandeep will head back to the camp in Mohali to prepare for the senior national boxing championships in Noida in December.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be a very busy year for all boxers. I will head straight to the camp after the National Games, and will start preparing for the national championships. Winning the nationals will open the doors for national selection,\u201d the 2019 national championship bronze medallist said before signing off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Goa Khabar:\u00a0Former world junior champion boxer Mandeep Kaur is hoping that a second consecutive National Games silver medal would open up doors for her recruitment in Punjab Police and end her dependence on her father\u2019s farm earnings to fund her. A two-time gold medallist at the Inter-University Games, and a Khelo India University Games gold […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25169,"featured_media":91591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,6],"tags":[3794],"class_list":["post-91590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-155","category-6","tag-featured"],"read":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91592,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91590\/revisions\/91592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}