Vikas Krishan Yadav is an Indian boxer who competes in the 75kg category. He is only the second Indian boxer after Vijender Singh to qualify for the Olympics for the third time. In 2021, he won a ticket to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The Olympics were postponed due to COVID-19 and will be held in 2021.
Wiki/Biography
Vikas Krishan Yadav was born on Monday, 10 February 1992 (age 29; as of 2021) in Singhwa Khas village, Hisar, Haryana. His zodiac sign is Aquarius. At the age of 2, Yadav moved to Bhiwani with his father (where his father was transferred). He studies in BPS Bhiwani. At the age of 10, Vikas joined Bhiwani Boxing Club to learn the basics of boxing. Later, he moved to Pune and joined the Army Sports Academy for boxing training. In 2012, Yadav took a year off from boxing to complete his degree at Kurukshetra University in Haryana.
appearance
Height: 5′91⁄2″
Weight: 69kg
Body measurements (approximately): Chest 40″, Waist 32″, Biceps 14″
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
Vikas Krishan Yadav
family
Parents and siblings
His father, Krishan Kumar Yadav, is an employee in the Haryana power department. Little is known about his mother.
Vikas Krishan Yadav and his mother
wife and children
Vikas is married and has a son.
Vikas Krishan Yadav and his son
Profession
In 2010, Vikas won a gold medal at the AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships in Tehran, Iran. He next defeated Lithuania’s Evaldas Petrauskas at the 2010 AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships in Baku. That same year, he won the Summer Youth Olympics lightweight championship. He then won a gold medal at the Asian Games.
Vikas Krishan Yadav after winning boxing match
In 2011, he won a welterweight bronze medal at the World Amateur Boxing Championships. In 2012, he participated in the 2012 London Olympics. He lost to Errol Spencer Jr. in the quarterfinals. He then took a year off to focus on his studies.
Vikas Krishan Yadav in boxing match
In 2014, he represented India at the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, and won the middleweight bronze medal. Next, he participated in the 2015 Asian Boxing Championships and won a silver medal. In the same year, he participated in the 2015 World Boxing Championships. In 2016, he qualified for the Rio Olympics and won a bronze medal.
Rio Olympics Vikas Krishan Yadav
In 2018, he won a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games.
Vikas Krishan Yadav attended CWG 2018
He later won a bronze medal at the 2018 Asian Games. In 2020, won a ticket to the Tokyo Olympics; became the second Indian after Vijender Singh to qualify for the Olympics for the third time.
Vikas Krishan Yadav holds Tokyo Olympics 2020 ticket
medal
gold
- 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games Gold Medal (Lightweight)
Vikas Krishan Yadav wins gold medal
- 2010 AIBA Youth World Boxing Championship Gold Medal (Lightweight)
- 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games Gold Medal (Middleweight)
Vikas Krishan Yadav wins medal (CWG 2018)
silver
- 2015 Bangkok Asian Championships Silver Medal (Middleweight)
bronze
- 2010 Singapore Summer Youth Olympic Games Bronze Medal (Lightweight)
- 2011 Baku World Championship Bronze Medal (Welterweight)
- 2014 Incheon Asian Games Bronze Medal (Middleweight)
- 2017 Tashkent Asian Championship Bronze Medal (Middleweight)
- 2018 Jakarta Palembang Asian Games Bronze Medal (Middleweight)
Vikas Krishan Yadav wins Asian Games medal
- Dubai Asian Championships 2021 Bronze Medal (Welterweight)
Awards
- New Delhi National Championship Best Boxer (2010)
- Government of India Arjuna Award (2012)
Vikas Krishan Yadav wins Arjuna Award
favorite thing
- Travel destination: New York
Facts/Trivia
- In his spare time, Vikas enjoys cycling.
- He is fluent in Hindi and English and his dialect is Haryanavi.
- In September 2015, he was ranked No. 4 in the middleweight boxing world rankings by the International Boxing Association (AIBA).
- Vikas said in an interview that he was very undisciplined and never ate, slept or trained on time. He said,
I used to be very undisciplined. I would never eat on time, sleep on time, train on time. I didn’t do the right thing. When I entered Olympic training camp in 2019, I lived with a wrestler who taught me a lot. He told me how a world champion in wrestling spends his day. He gets up an hour or ninety minutes before training. Then he does yoga, starting 30 minutes before he’s supposed to start getting into the right frame of mind. So I started doing those things as well. “
- Vikas said in an interview that he did not eat pizza or any junk food for more than a year. Talking about this, he said,
Within a limited scope, everyone loves junk food. Everyone has a cheat day, some people have it once a week, some people have it once a month. But I haven’t had pizza or any type of junk food in over 18 months. “
- In 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi invited him to the Prime Minister House to congratulate and recognize his contribution to boxing in India.
Vikas Krishan Yadav with Prime Minister Narendra Modi
- He exercises every day to keep himself fit.
Vikas Krishan Yadav during training
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