Nikhat Zareen is an Indian Professional boxer who is a two-time world champion. She won a gold medal at the 2011 AIBA Women’s Youth & Junior World Boxing Championships. Zareen won gold medals at the 2022 Istanbul, and 2023 New Delhi IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships. She also won a gold medal at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. She won the bronze medal in the Light flyweight event in the 2022 Asian Games.
Nikhat Zareen Biography/Wikipedia
Nikhat Zareen was born on 14 June 1996 in Nizamabad district of Telangana, India, and is 28 years old as of 2024. She is an Indian sports personality who follows the Islamic religion. Her height is 5′ 7″ inches. 1starsunfolded
Nikhat Zareen Education
Nikhat attended Nirmala Hrudaya Girls High School in Nizamabad for her primary education. Then, she studied for a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at AV College in Hyderabad, Telangana. Since June 2021, Zareen has been working as a staff officer at the Bank of India’s zonal office in AC Guards, Hyderabad. 2thebiographyworld
Nikhat Zareen Parents
Nikhat was born to Mohammad Jameel Ahmed, who is a former boxer, and Parveen Sultana. She was introduced to boxing by her father and he trained her for a year. She was raised in an orthodox Muslim family with three sisters. 3olympics
Nikhat Zareen Husband
Nikhat is unmarried in marital status and she has no husband.
Nikhat Zareen Career Journey
In 2009, Nikhat joined the Sports Authority of India in Vishakhapatnam to train under Dronacharya awardee Rao. She was named the ‘golden best boxer’ at the Erode Nationals in 2010.
In 2011, Zareen won a gold medal in the flyweight division at the AIBA Women’s Junior and Youth World Boxing Championship in Turkey. In 2014, she earned a silver medal at the Youth World Boxing Championship in Bulgaria and a gold medal at the Nations Cup International Boxing Tournament in Serbia.
Zareen continued her success by winning a gold medal at the 16th Senior Woman National Boxing Championship in Assam in 2015. In 2019, Zareen won a silver medal at the Thailand Open International Boxing Tournament in Bangkok and a gold medal at the Strandja Memorial Boxing Tournament in Bulgaria.
In 2022, Nikhat won another gold medal at the 73rd Strandja Memorial Boxing Tournament in Sofia. She also won the gold medal in the 52 kg category at the Women’s World Championship in Turkey and became the fifth Indian woman to achieve this.
Zareen secured a gold medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham by defeating Carly McNaul of Northern Ireland. In 2023, she won her second world championship gold medal at the IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships in New Delhi, defeating Vietnam’s Nguyen Thi Tam.
At the 2024 Paris Olympics, Zareen, who entered unseeded, won her round of 32 bout but was defeated by Chinese world number 1 Wu Yu in the round of 16. 4wikipedia
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