India has been creating buzz about a Boxing Championship, all for the right reason. The Junior Age brings you the inspiring story of Nupur Sheoran, India’s new boxing star, who fought her way to a Silver medal at the World Boxing Championships 2025. Nupur’s journey is packed with grit, comebacks, and powerful punches.
Know all about Nupur Sheoran and her story shows how determination can turn challenges into Boxing Championship triumphs:
When you grow up in the family of boxing royalty, expectations are heavy. Born on 26 September 1998 in Haryana, for Nupur Sheoran, though, that weight has turned into power. With a strong legacy, it was only a matter of time before Nupur stepped into the ring herself.
Haryana has long been India’s boxing heartland, producing names like Vijender Singh and Mary Kom’s fiercest sparring partners. Nupur grew up surrounded by gloves, bags, and ringside stories. Her father, Sanjay Singh Sheoran, is also a former boxer and today runs the Captain Hawa Singh Boxing Academy in Bhiwani. That gym became her playground, and later, her battlefield.
By 2015, she had chosen boxing as her path. Training was never easy. Hours of drills, bruised knuckles, and the shadow of her grandfather’s reputation followed her. But rather than being crushed by that pressure, Nupur used it as motivation.
National Dominance & Turning Point for Nupur Sheoran
In India, she quickly rose to the top. Nupur became a five-time national champion, dominating her weight category. Coaches admired her tall frame, sharp jab, and mental toughness. But her real test was yet to come, proving herself on the world stage.
In 2023, Nupur suffered a serious foot injury that could have ended her career. Instead, she came back stronger, switching to the +80 kg heavyweight division, a category where India has rarely won medals. Her height of 1.83 metres gave her a natural reach advantage, but it also meant fewer sparring partners of her size in India. Finding balance in this new category was a fresh challenge.
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Silver Medal for India In World Boxing Championships 2025
In 2025, at the World Boxing Championships in Liverpool, Nupur delivered one of the finest performances of her career. She battled past Uzbekistan’s Oltinoy Sotimboeva with a convincing 4-1 win in the quarterfinals, securing at least a bronze medal for India. She didn’t stop there. With grit and power, she reached the final, where she fought Poland’s Agata Kaczmarska.
The match was tough and went down to the wire. In the end, Nupur lost 2–3, but her silver medal was historic. It marked a breakthrough for Indian women in the heavyweight category, shining a spotlight on a division often overlooked.
For Nupur Sheoran, silver is not the end. It is the beginning of a bigger journey. Her story is proof that legacies are not just inherited, they are built, one fight at a time.
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