Raj Kumar Sangwan
Raj Kumar Sangwan Born 20 Aug , 1969 in village Sahuwas , District Charkhi Dadri , Haryana, has won the Arjun Award in the year of 1996. He is the first Indian boxer who won the gold medal for India in the Asian games in boxing. He was also ranked 4th in 1995.
Soon after his gold medal at Asian Games, he entered professional boxing in the UK. He has been nicknamed Sugar in the boxing world. Due to some family emergency, he had to come back and retire from Professional Boxing. It is Raj Kumar Sangwan who inspired the present-day Bhiwani boxers to take up this sport and make Bhiwani a little Cuba. He is General Secretary of All Indian Professional Boxing Federation. He is also a member of the Chief selection committee for the Boxing Federation of India. He is a helping figure to rising boxers and always a call available to all aspirants. Socially, he is known as a generous person in and around his village.
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