Vijender Singh Beniwal, born on 29 October 1985 in Kaluwas village near Bhiwani, Haryana, is an Indian professional boxer and a politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party. As an amateur middleweight he won a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, becoming the first Indian boxer to win an Olympic medal. He also won bronze medals at the 2009 World Championships and the 2010 Commonwealth Games, and silver medals at the 2006 and 2014 Commonwealth Games. He had earlier competed at the 2004 Athens Olympics in the welterweight division. In June 2015 he turned professional, signing with Queensberry Promotions, which ruled him out of the 2016 Olympics. He contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in South Delhi.
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is an Indian professional boxer
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He also won bronze medals at the 2009 World Championships and the 2010 Commonwealth Games, as well as silver medals at the 2006 and 2014 Commonwealth Games
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is an Indian professional boxer
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he won a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics
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Vijender competed at the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics, in the welterweight division
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silver medals at the 2006 and 2014 Commonwealth Games
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