At the Tokyo Olympics 2020, the twenty-four-year-old boxer from Assam’s Golaghat took home the Bronze medal in the women’s 69kg boxing event. With this victory, Lovlina Borgohain became the third Indian boxer to earn a medal at the Olympics. After M.C Mary Kom, she is the second Indian female boxer to win an Olympic medal. Her first taste of achievement came when she was chosen to compete for India in the welterweight division in the 2018 Commonwealth Games. She later went on to win a bronze medal at the 2017 Asian Boxing Championships in Vietnam. Other notable triumphs include the President’s Cup in Astana in 2017, a silver medal at Mongolia’s Ulaanbaatar Cup in 2018, and a bronze medal at Poland’s 13th International Silesian Championship in 2018.She was presented the Arjuna Award by the government of India for her outstanding achievement in boxing in 2020.
