Vikas Krishan Yadav

Select Language Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bulgarian Bengali Catalan Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician Georgian German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creole Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Kannada Khmer Korean Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Maltese Marathi Nepali Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swahili Swedish Tamil Telugu Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh Yiddish

This is a collection of articles archived for the excellence of their content. Additional information may please be sent as messages to the Facebook community, Indpaedia.com. All information used will be gratefully acknowledged in your name.

2018

August 16, 2018: The Times of India

BOXING

Vikas Krishan Yadav (75 Kg)

AGE: 26 years; PLACE OF BIRTH: Singhwa Khas Village, Hissar; STANCE: Southpaw; CLUB: Bhiwani Boxing Club The Arjuna Awardwinning pugilist made his mark by winning a gold in the 2010 Asian Games and then went on to win back-to-back gold in the Asian Youth Boxing Championships and the Youth World Amateur Boxing Championships the same year. At the 2012 Olympics, he lost out to Errol Spence by two points. The result was overturned five hours after Vikas was declared the winner in the opening bout. A distraught Vikas walked away from the sport for a year and half but returned with a bang to the ring with a 2014 Asian Games bronze medal in Incheon.

As in 2021 June

Hindol Basu, July 21, 2021: The Times of India

The 29-year-old is a prime medal contender for India and the Tokyo Games will be his third consecutive Olympics. He will be competing in the 69kg category.

In London as well as Rio, however, Vikas couldn’t return with a medal. In 2012, a 20-year-old Vikas had won his preliminary bout against USA’s Errol Spence, only to see the result overturned in a few hours. Four years later in Rio, he fell one step away from winning a medal, losing in the quarterfinal.

Krishan is a three-time Asian Games medallist, having won gold in 2010 and bronze in 2014 and 2018. The 29-year-old has also bagged three Asian Championship medals, including one silver (2015) and two bronze medals (2017 and 2021). There is a World Championships bronze (2011) too in his trophy cabinet. He also won gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

In November 2018, Vikas had turned pro, only to return to the amateur fold a year later with the goal to win a medal in Tokyo. In fact, he fought two pro boxing bouts in the United States and managed to remain undefeated in them. The second bout was at the iconic Madison Square Garden.