Born on October 2, 1997, Lovelina Borgohain is an Assamese native from the Golaghat area. Tiken and Mamoni Borgohain are her parents. Her father Tiken, a small-business owner, had trouble paying for his daughter’s aspirations. As the youngest of three sister-siblings and a former Muay Thai practitioner, Lovlina became interested in boxing after seeing her twin sisters Licha and Lima take up kickboxing and decided to follow the same path. Borgohain took part in tryouts held by the Sports Authority of India at her high school, Barpathar Girls High School. At the SAI STC Guwahati beginning in 2012, she was seen and chosen by famous Coach Padum Chandra Bodo to master the fundamentals of boxing and to achieve excellence in the sport. She later received coaching from Sandhya Gurung.
Her achievement at the first India Open, an international boxing competition held in February 2018, when she won a gold medal in the welterweight division, was credited with earning her a spot in the 2018 Commonwealth Games. She also received a bronze medal at the President’s Cup held in Astana in June 2017 and the Asian Boxing Championships held in Vietnam in November 2017.
Afterwards, she earned a bronze medal in the 13th International Silesian Championship in Poland in September 2018 and a silver medal at the Ulaanbaatar Cup in Mongolia in June 2018.
2018 AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships
She competed in the welterweight division and earned the bronze medal on November 23 at the AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championship, which was held in New Delhi. Without going through any trials, Borgohain was chosen to compete in her second Women’s World Boxing Championships in Ulan-Ude, Russia, from 3–13 October. In her round of 16 match, Borgohain defeated Bel Ahbib Oumayma of Morocco 5-0. She had to settle for the bronze medal after losing to China’s Yang Liu by a score of 2-3 in the 69 kg category semi-final.
2020 Olympics qualifying event
In the 2020 Asia & Pacific Boxing Olympic Qualifying Tournament in March 2020, Borgohain defeated Uzbek Maftunakhon Melieva 5-0 to earn a spot in the 69 kg Olympic competition. She has now achieved a first for Assam sportswomen by qualifying for the Olympics.
In preparation for the World Olympic qualifying competition expected for May or June 2021, Borgohain trained in Assisi, Italy, from 15 October to 5 December 2020.
2020 Tokyo Olympics
The second boxer from Assam and the first female athlete to compete for the nation in the Olympics is Borgohain. Her victories over Taiwan’s Chen Nien-chin on July 30, 2021, and the German fighter Nadine Apetz in the opening rounds gave her a medal. make up her own tale. She earned the bronze medal after losing to eventual gold champion and world number one Busenaz Sürmeneli in the semifinals.
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