Sunil Kumar Siwach
Sunil got off on a winning note in 2006 when he clinched a gold at the B.D. Chandiwala Tournament in Delhi, bronze in the Junior National Boxing in Goa, gold in the Asian Cadet Boxing Championship in Vietnam and then the world cadet title.Sunil Kumar Siwach’s golden victory in the 50 kg category at Istanbul (Turkey) has shown that Indian boxing is on the right track, after a terrible low at the 2002 Busan Asian Games.
Sunil’s potential was quite evident when he won a silver medal in the Sub-Junior National Championship at Jamshedpur in 2002, just one and a half years after he took up boxing.
The next year, he won a gold in the sub-junior nationals at Haldwani (Uttaranchal), and in 2004, he picked up a silver at Bhilai and a gold at the YMCA Championship in Delhi. He won a bronze in the Hyder Aliev Cup in Azerbaijan in 2005.
Sunil's father Sadhu Ram Siwach is a kabaddi coach with Haryana police and his elder brother Satish Kumar is a kabaddi player.
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