Vikas Krishan Yadav
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| Nationality | Indian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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February 10, 1992 Singhwa Khas, Hisar, Haryana, India |
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| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 60 kg (130 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rated at | Lightweight | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Bhiwani Boxing Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Vikas Krishan Yadav (born 10 February 1992) is an Indian male boxer from Bhiwani district in Haryana, who won a gold medal in the 2010 Asian Games in the Lightweight category.
Due to the ban on the Boxing Federation of India in 2015, Vikas competed at the Worlds and Asian Championships under the AIBA flag.
Yadav was born in Singhwa Khas village in Hisar district. His father Krishan Kumar Yadav is an employee in the Electricity Department. In 1994 he came to Bhiwani along with his father, who was transferred to this city. In 2003, at the age of 10, Yadav joined the Bhiwani Boxing Club. Later, he received training in the Army Sports Institute at Pune.
After his premature exit from the 2012 Olympics, Yadav took a year off from boxing and focussed on completing his education at the Kurukshetra University and his training with the Haryana State Police. Presently, Yadav is an employee of the Haryana State Electricity Board.
Asian Youth Boxing Championships: The 2010 Asian Youth Boxing Championships were held in Tehran, Iran during the month of March 2010. Yadav won his first international medal which was a gold medal at the tournament.
2010 Summer Youth Olympics|2010 Youth Olympics: On 24 August 2010 in Singapore, he won a bronze medal in Lightweight category after being defeated by Evaldas Petrauskas of Lithuania in the bronze medal bout.
2010 AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships|2010 Youth World Amateur Boxing Championships: He won a gold medal at Baku in the Lightweight category, defeating Evaldas Petrauskas of Lithuania, the same opponent he faced earlier in the year at the Youth Olympics.
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