CHANDIGARH: For the women athletes of Haryana, the Commonwealth Games 2026 in Glasgow will be forever etched in their memories after winning a haul of medals in boxing, discus throw and javelin. <\/p>\n
The women pugilists from Bhiwani\u2014known as \u201cIndia\u2019s Cuba\u201d for its rich boxing heritage\u2014won four gold medals, thus enhancing the town\u2019s reputation as a boxing powerhouse. The five women boxers Preeti Pawar (54 kg), Jaismine Lamboria (57 kg), Sakshi Chaudhary (51 kg) and Priya Ghanghas (60 kg) collectively won four gold medals on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Among the other star performers from the town was Seema Kaliraman, who, while pursuing her PhD, won a bronze medal in discus throw. Her personal coach is her husband Ravinder, who is a former discus thrower, but his career was cut short due to an injury.<\/p>\n
The performance of Preeti, a Naib Subedar in the army from Badesra village, Bhiwani, delivered a dominant 5-0 victory over Scarlett Delgado of Canada in the final.<\/p>\n
Her father Sombir said that Preeti had promised the family that she would return with a medal. \u201cHer mother will welcome her home with \u2018churma\u2019 and \u2018kheer\u2019,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Another Naib Subedar, Jaismine Lambor, won gold by defeating Michaela Walsh of Northern Ireland. She had previously won bronze at the last Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n
Bhiwani Boxing Club president Kamal Singh Pradhan said that women boxers had outperformed their male counterparts this time, and it is a proud moment to watch girls from the state dominate the international boxing arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHANDIGARH: For the women athletes of Haryana, the Commonwealth Games 2026 in Glasgow will be forever etched in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,414965,802,403637,85],"class_list":["post-842964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bhiwani","tag-boxing","tag-cwg-2026","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}