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Marital Status: Married
Weight: 69 Kg
Age: 29 Years
Some Lesser Known Facts About Vikas Krishan Yadav
- Vikas Krishan Yadav is an Indian pugilist who competes within the 75 Kg weight class.
- In 2021, he grew to become the second Indian boxer after Vijender Singh to qualify for the Olympics for the third time. Yadav earned the ticket to the Tokyo Olympics 2020. The Olympics had been postponed to 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- When Vikas was 2 years outdated, his father took him to Bhiwani the place he (his father) was transferred.
- At the age of 10, Yadav joined the Bhiwani Boxing Club to be taught the game.
- Later, he went to Pune and joined the Army Sports Institute to get educated in boxing.
- Vikas participated within the AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships held in Tehran, Iran, in 2010 and gained a gold medal.
- In the identical yr, he participated in AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships at Baku and defeated Evaldas Petrauskas of Lithuania in it.
- Next, he gained a bronze medal on the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics within the light-weight class.
- Subsequently, he participated within the 2010 Asian Games and gained a gold medal.
- Vikas gained a bronze medal within the welterweight class at World Amateur Boxing Championships in 2011.
- In 2012, Vikas made it to the London Olympics however misplaced to Errol Spence Jr. in his pre-quarterfinal.
- He then took a one-year break from his boxing profession to focus on his research.
- In 2014, he gained a bronze medal within the Asian Games held at Incheon, South Korea, within the middleweight class.
- In 2015, he participated within the Asian Boxing Championships and gained a silver medal.
- In the identical yr, Vikas took half within the World Boxing Championships.
- In 2016, Vikas gained a bronze medal within the Rio Olympics.
- He then took half within the 2018 Commonwealth Games and gained a gold medal.
- In the identical yr, he participated within the Asian Games and gained a bronze medal.
- In 2020, he certified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
- In his spare time, Vikas likes to trip a motorbike.
- He has a great command of Hindi and English and his dialect is Haryanavi.
- In September 2015, the International Boxing Federation (AIBA) positioned Vikas at world rank 4 in middleweight class boxing.
- In considered one of his interviews, Vikas shared that at the start of his profession he was very undisciplined. He stated,
I used to be very undisciplined earlier. I’d by no means eat on time, sleep on time, wouldn’t prepare on time. I used to be not doing the best issues. When I entered the Olympic camp in 2019, I used to be staying with a wrestler, he taught me so much. He instructed me how a wrestling world champion buildings his day. He will get up an hour or 90 minutes forward of the coaching. Then he does yoga, he goes into coaching half-hour earlier than it’s imagined to begin to get into the best way of thinking. So I additionally began doing these issues.”
- During an interview, Vikas shared that he skipped consuming Pizza for greater than a yr. Talking about the identical, he stated,
Within limits, everybody enjoys junk meals. Everyone has cheat days, some folks have it as soon as every week others as soon as in a month. But it’s been greater than 18 months that I’ve had a pizza or any form of junk meals.”
- In 2019, he was invited to the PM home by PM Narendra Modi to congratulate and honour him for his achievements in boxing.
- He is a health fanatic and works out often to keep up his health.