Laishram Sarita Devi

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

Laishram Sarita Devi

This is a collection of articles archived for the excellence of their content. You can update or correct this page, and/ or send photographs to the Facebook page, Indpaedia.com. All information used will be duly acknowledged.

Laishram Sarita Devi, from Thoubal village has won several international gold medals in boxing.

Though not in the same league as world champion Mary Kom, Sarita is one of India's most internationally decorated sportspersons and has consistently done her nation proud.

Born 1 March 1985

Sources include

Olympic Gold Quest

Claim to fame

Laishram Sarita is a boxer and has won a number of medals in major international tournaments.

She has fought in altogether four different categories, 51 kg, 52 kg, 54 kg and 57 kg.

Family background

Born in Mayang Imphal West District,

Sarita is the 6th daughter of 8 siblings (Two daughters and 6 sons).

Sarita had her taste for sports from local Sports Meets and Yaoshang (Holi festival)’s Sports meet since her early childhood days.

Born and brought up in economically backward family that depends of Agriculture.

With a careless boyish character she always assisted her parents at works from collecting firewood or assisting in the field work. This is the key to her physical stamina that is giving her strength to box her way through tough competitions.

Sarita was among the women boxers who took part in a show bout as a part of the introduction of Boxing in the National Games.

First triumphs

She made her debut bout (National arena) in the First Women’s National Boxing Championship in the year 2001, held at Chennai TN, JNI Stadium and won a first gold medal

Her first international appearance was on August, 2001 at the 1st Asian Women Boxing Championship, at Bangkok, Thailand and she won a silver medal.

She has won 16 medals in the different national boxing events out of which only one silver medal almost perfect performance

15 medals, including two gold medals in the World Women Boxing Championships, in 18 international events.

National honours

She was honoyred with the prestigious Arjuna Award in the year 2009 for outstanding international achievements.

Major international triumphs

Year	Event	Place	Medal
2001	First Asian Women Boxing Championship	Bangkok	Silver
2003	Second Asian Women Boxing Championship	Hisar	Gold
2005	Third Asian Women Boxing Championship	Kaohsiung City, Taiwan	Gold
2005	World Women Boxing Tournament	Norway	Silver
2005	Venus International Women Boxing Championship	Norway	Gold
2008	Fourth Asian Women Boxing Championship	Guwahati	Gold
2010	Fifth Asian Women Boxing Championship	Astana,Kazakhstan	Gold
2014	Commonwealth Games	Glasgow	Silver