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  • Vijender Singh won his maiden title last year in July after defeating Kerry Hope of Australia.
  • Vijender Singh, India's first Olympic boxing medallist, told THE WEEK that Abraham Lincoln is lauded as among the very best presidents the US ever.
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  • The son of a bus driver whose father often worked overtime to support Vijender's boxing career, Singh put together a lengthy and distinguished amateur career.

    • Vijender Singh

    Indian boxer

    Vijender Singh Beniwal (born 29 October 1985) is an Indian professional boxer and politician of Bharatiya Janata Party.[1] As an amateur, he won a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, becoming the first Indian boxer to win an Olympic medal.

    He also won bronze medals at the 2009 World Championships and the 2010 Commonwealth Games, as well as silver medals at the 2006 and 2014 Commonwealth Games, all in the middleweight division.[2]

    In June 2015, Vijender Singh turned professional and signed a multi-year agreement with Queensberry Promotions through IOS Sports and Entertainment.

    This ruled him out of 2016 Olympics which would have been his fourth.[3]

    He has also been an active politician and contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from the South Delhi constituency.[4]

    Early life

    Vijender Singh was born in a Jat family[5] on 29 October 1985 in Kaluwas village, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from