Tokyo 2020: Meet Lovlina Borgohain, the second Indian woman boxer to win an Olympic medal
Tokyo 2020: Meet Lovlina Borgohain, the second Indian woman boxer to win an Olympic medal
Hailing from Golaghat district of Assam, Lovlina upstaged former world champion to reach the semi-final at the Olympics LUIS ROBAYO / AFP
Lovlina Borgohain has always been unusual. In her school, in Baro Mukhia village in Golaghat district of Assam, she was taller than her peers. It didn’t do her any favours as her height was often made fun of.
But in Tokyo on Friday, her height was a big factor as she beat former world champions Nien-Chin Chen of Chinese Taipei to enter the semi-finals in the welterweight category and thus assure herself of an Olympic medal.
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