Haroon Khan also known as Haroon Iqbal is a British

Great Britain

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 boxer of Pakistani

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

 origin. He has chosen to represent Pakistan.

Family

Haroon Shahid Iqbal Khan is 20 years old and the younger brother of WBA and IBF World Light Welterweight Champion, Amir Khan

Amir Khan (boxer)

Amir Iqbal Khan , is a British Pakistani professional boxer who is currently the unified WBA & IBF light welterweight champion....

. He is also the first cousin of English

England

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 cricketer

Cricket

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, Sajid Mahmood

Sajid Mahmood

Sajid "Saj" Iqbal Mahmood is an English cricketer of Pakistani descent...

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Career

Khan, an amateur boxer, fights in the flyweight (52kg) class. He represented Pakistan at the 2010 Commonwealth Games

2010 Commonwealth Games

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 in New Delhi

New Delhi

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, India

India

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. In the qualification round he defeated Tanzania

Tanzania

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n boxer Sunday Elias with a blow to the head in the third round. After beating Welshman

Wales

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, Andrew Selby

Andrew Selby

Andrew Selby is a Welsh amateur boxer fighting in the 52 kg Flyweight category and is ranked 6th in the world at that weight. He won gold at the 2011 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Ankara and had previously won a bronze medal at the 2008 European championships...

, in the quarter finals Khan was guaranteed a medal.
He won the first Bronze medal for Pakistan in the Delhi Commonwealth Games after being defeated by boxer Suran.