Nikhat Zareen

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Nikhat Zareen
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Career highlights

Nikhat Zareen is an Indian professional boxer who competes in the flyweight division. She has had a successful career so far, with several notable achievements and highlights.

One of Nikhat's early career highlights was winning the silver medal at the AIBA Women's Youth World Boxing Championships in 2011. She competed in the flyweight division and made it to the final before being defeated by a boxer from China.

In 2019, Nikhat won a bronze medal at the Strandja Memorial Boxing Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria. She defeated opponents from Poland and Ukraine before losing to a boxer from Bulgaria in the semifinals.

Later that year, Nikhat competed at the Asian Women's Boxing Championships in Bangkok, Thailand. She won a bronze medal in the flyweight division, losing to a boxer from China in the semifinals.

In 2020, Nikhat was selected to compete at the Asia/Oceania Olympic Qualifiers in Amman, Jordan. She made it to the semifinals but lost to a boxer from China, missing out on a chance to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics.

Nikhat has also won several national titles in India, including the Senior Women's National Boxing Championships in 2019 and 2021.

Overall, Nikhat Zareen has established herself as one of the top female boxers in India and has represented her country with distinction on the international stage. With her talent and hard work, she is sure to achieve many more career highlights in the years to come.

Controversies

2019/ controversy with Mary Kom

Siddharth Saxena, Dec 15, 2019: The Times of India

In August 2019, a controversy broke out when the Boxing Federation of India stopped Nikhat from competing against Mary Kom at the selection trials for the World Championships in Ulan-Ude, Russia. This paved the way for the six-time world champion’s automatic selection for the meet, where she went on to claim bronze. Nikhat, a former junior world champion, fought back, tweeting to sports minister Kiren Rijiju demanding a trial against Mary Kom to decide India’s representative for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic qualifiers in the 51kg category. The trial between the two is now slated to be held in the last week of this month.

“Mary Kom’s asked me to talk less and prove myself in the ring, I think I’ll do just that,” says Nikhat, “What’s the use of spending an entire year in training, hopping from camp to camp, when you are eventually denied a rightful chance at a shot at the one thing we are all here for – the Tokyo Olympics? Mary Kom is an absolute legend, she was the reason I took up boxing but like it or not, this is also about my haq (right)."