Pinki Rani Jangra is a flyweight Indian boxer from Hisar, Haryana. Pinki is known as the 'Giant Killer' because of her accomplishments in boxing. She was awarded Gold medals during the 2011 National Games of India as well as the 2013 and the 2014. National Championships for Flyweight (51kgs) division.
She was an Olympic bronze medalist from the Commonwealth Games in 2014. Pinki also took home an award of gold at the President's Cup International Boxing in Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia in 2015. Pinki was the only Indian boxer who won Gold in the Arafura Games.
Domestic Career
Pinki became famous to those who don't follow boxing after she beat London Olympic Games bronze medalist and six-time World Champion Mary Kom in the National Boxing Championship 2009 and Commonwealth Games 2014 qualification trial.
Pinki also defeated 5 times Asian Champion and World Champion Laishram Sarita Devi at the National Games and National Boxing Championship 2011.
Domestic Victories
Pinki Rani Jangra was the winner of her first Federation Cup Women Boxing Championship that was held in Erode, Tamil Nadu in 2009. The following year, she took home the Gold in the N.C. Sharma Memorial Federation Cup Women Boxing Championship, Nainital.
The S.H.N.C. Sharma Memorial Federation Cup Women Boxing Championship, Uttarakhand in 2010-11, Pinki bagged the gold. Pinki repeated her feat in the ninth Senior Women Haryana State Boxing Championship, Panipat, in 2010.
The 10th Senior Women Haryana State Boxing Championship which was which was held at Mehandergarh, Jangra won Gold in the year 2011. She also won gold at her participation in the 7th Senior Women North India Boxing Championship, Himachal Pradesh. She also won gold in the fourth Inter-Zonal Women National Boxing Championship in Visakhapatnam in 2012.
National Victories
The boxer took gold in the 34th National Games which were held in Jamshedpur in the year 2011. In November 2012, at the 13th Senior Women's National Boxing Championship in Guwahati she was awarded the Gold.
2014 was another fantastic season for the Nationals where she took home two gold medals. The first came took place at the All India Inter-Railway Boxing Championships, Agra in March and another in the 1st Monnet Women Elite National Boxing Championship in Raipur. In 2015, she repeated her feats of brilliance during the All India Inter-Railway Boxing Championship, Bilaspur, by bagging another Gold in February 2015.
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