Soon after Simranjeet Kaur bagged the silver medal in the 64kg weight category at the Asian Boxing Championship in Bangkok in April last ye...
Soon after Simranjeet Kaur bagged the silver medal in the 64kg weight category at the Asian Boxing Championship in Bangkok in April last year, the coaches decided to shift her down to the 60kg weight category as they thought that she would have a realistic chance of making it to the Tokyo Olympics.
There were two factors that worked in her favour. One, she was fearless inside the ring and had the positivity needed to take on the challenge. Secondly, her weight always hovered around the 62 kg mark even when she was competing in the higher weight category and that meant that she did not need any drastic measures to cut down weight apart ramping up her training to reduce body fat.
While that was the easier part, learning to compete in the lower weight category against swifter opponents was going to be a challenge and more so when her primary opponent was going to be the experienced Sarita Devi.
Simranjeet lost twice to the former Asian and World Champion in the space of few months and missed out on the World Championship berth and was even forced to spend over a week at home following a bout of typhoid but she never lost hope....
