Paramjeet Samota | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Dinod village,[1] Bhiwani district | 5 July 1988|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Indian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Height | 183 cm (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Paramjeet Samota (born 5 July 1988) is an Indian amateur boxer best known for winning a Commonwealth Games Gold Medal in 2010 at Super Heavyweight.
Samota grew up in Dinod, a village near Bhiwani.[1]
Samota won a gold medal in the Super heavyweight category at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, defeating Tariq Abdul Haqq of Trinidad & Tobago 5-1.[2][3] In the fifth Commonwealth Boxing Championships held in New Delhi from 10–18 March 2010, he, along with five other fellow Indians, won a gold medal, defeating New Zealand's Joseph Parker 7-3.[4][5] He won a bronze medal in the Men's Super heavyweight category at the 2010 Asian Games, as he lost in the semifinals to eventual winner Zhang Zhilei.[6]