Sandhya Gurung

Select Language Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bulgarian Bengali Catalan Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician Georgian German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creole Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Kannada Khmer Korean Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Maltese Marathi Nepali Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swahili Swedish Tamil Telugu Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh Yiddish

This is a collection of articles archived for the excellence of their content. Additional information may please be sent as messages to the Facebook community, Indpaedia.com. All information used will be gratefully acknowledged in your name.

A brief biography

As in 2021 Aug

Chandrima Banerjee, August 5, 2021: The Times of India

Sandhya Gurung had jokingly told her husband’s friend from his Army days, former Olympian Jaslal Pradhan, that she wanted to join his boxing practice. When he told her there was no organised women’s boxing, she let it rest. She had anyway not been confident about her athletic abilities after a three-year spell of paralysis as a teenager. But women’s boxing opened up that year, 1999, and in 20 years since then, she became a national-level boxer, represented India and is the force behind Olympic bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain.

“The day I had asked Pradhan sir, it was a joke. But deep down, I wanted it,” she told TOI from Gangtok. Women’s boxing had a long history of struggle. Britain had lifted its ban on it just three years before her conversation with Pradhan and the US only six years. It’d be another 13 years before it became an Olympic sport. “In 1999, Pradhan sir told me he had news —women’s boxing had started.” She was nervous. “I’d been told I wouldn’t be able to box. I was paralysed when I was 14. I did recover, when I was 16, and was married at 18,” she said.