Jai Bhagwan | |
Nationality: | Indian |
Birth Date: | 1985 5, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Hisar district, Haryana, India[1] |
Height: | 169 cm |
Weight: | 60 kg |
Weight Class: | Lightweight |
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Jai Bhagwan (born 11 May 1985), is a two-time Asian Championships medallist and a bronze winner at the 2010 Commonwealth Games who also represented India in boxing in the lightweight (60 kg) division at the 2012 London Olympics.[2] [3]
Bhagwan qualified for the London Games by reaching the quarterfinals of the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Baku.[4] He was coached by the Indian Boxing Coach Gurbaksh Singh Sandhu.
In 2011, he appeared in a reality game show hosted by Shahrukh Khan called and was one of the finalists.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he defeated Andrique Allisop of Seychelles 18-8 in the opening round on 29 July 2012.[5] On 2 August 2012, Bhagwan was defeated by Kazakh fighter Gani Zhailauov in the last 16.[6]