Vikas Krishan Yadav

Vikas Krishan Yadav (born 10 February 1992 Singhwa Khas, District Hisar, Haryana ) is an Indian boxer in the welterweight division. Krishan was the winner of the 2010 Asian Games, World Cup bronze medalist and 2011 Olympian, 2012.

Career

In youth ( U17) Krishan won the Asian Youth Games 2008 and at youth level ( U19) he was Asian junior champion 2010, bronze medal winner of the first Youth Olympic Games 2010 in Singapore and Junior World Champion 2010 in the Lightweight ( - 60kg).

Krishan In 2010, for the first time in an international men's championship, the Asian Games, part, where he won the gold medal with a final victory over Hu Qing, China ( 5-4 ). With this success, he participated in the World Championships in 2011 and arrived after victories over Asadullo Boimurodov, Kyrgyzstan ( 16:8 ), Magomed Nurutdinov, Bulgaria ( 10:10 ), Onder Sipal, Turkey ( 14:7 ), and Vasili Belous, Moldova ( 9:8 ), the semi-final, which he lost to eventual champion Taras Shelestyuk, Ukraine ( 15:12 ) and thus won the bronze medal.

With this placement, he qualified for the Olympic Games in 2012., Where he joined in the first fight against Errol Spence, USA, and won first with 13:11. This decision was annulled five hours later after objections from the Americans again. The AIBA Competition Jury criticized after reviewing the video recordings negligence of the referee, who had not called for several fouls by Krishan, as well as spitting out his mouthguard in the second round. Spence received four extra points and won 15:13.

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