Ankushita Boro
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6 October 2000
 Boro with Pwilao Basumatary at 2nd India Open International Boxing Tournament Guwahati | |||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Indian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | Ankushita Boro 6 October 2000 Meghai Jarani Gaon, Assam, India | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | Welterweight (64 kg) | ||||||||||||||
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| Stance | Orthodox | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ankushita Boro is an Indian boxer. She won gold medal at the 2017 AIBA Youth Women's World Boxing Championships.[1][2] She won gold medal in the first North East Olympic Games 2018, Imphal.[3] She won silver medal at the 2nd India Open International Boxing Tournament and a gold at the 3rd Khelo India Youth Games (KYIG) 2020, both held in Guwahati.[4] She also won 'The Best Boxer' title in the 2017 AIBA Youth Women's World Boxing Championships.[5] She won bronze medal at the 5th Elite Women's National Boxing Championship in Hisar.[6]
Boro was born to Rakesh Kumar, who is a primary school teacher, on probation and Ranjita, who is currently working with an NGO.[7] She hails from Meghai Jarani, a village in Sonitpur district, Assam. They helped Ankushita travel 165 km for the trials at the Sports Authority of India (SAI) centre in Golaghat. She trained from SAI Centre Golaghat with Trideep Bora as her coach. For Boro, boxing started by accident, when a friend asked her to compete in a local tournament, when she was just 12.[8] She travelled 165 km for trials at the Sports Authority of India (SAI), centre in Golaghat. After the selection at the SAI, was under the guidance of coach Trideep Bora.[9] She learnt better technique from Italian coach Raffael Bergamasco.[10][11] As of November 2017, Boro is a student of Dakshin Junior College in Guwahati.[12] Boro married her longtime coach Trideep Borah at Tezpur.[13]