Paramjeet Samota (born 5 July 1988) is an India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n boxer

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

 from a Jat family of Danaud village of Bhiwani district

Bhiwani District

Bhiwani district is one of the 21 districts of Haryana state in northern India. Bhiwani was created on 22 December 1972.The district headquarter is situated in Bhiwani town. The district occupies an area of . It is situated between 28.19 deg. & 29.05 deg. north latitudes and 75.26 deg. and 76.28...

 in Haryana

Haryana

Haryana is a state in India. Historically, it has been a part of the Kuru region in North India. The name Haryana is found mentioned in the 12th century AD by the apabhramsha writer Vibudh Shridhar . It is bordered by Punjab and Himachal Pradesh to the north, and by Rajasthan to the west and south...

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Career

Samota won a gold medal in the Super heavyweight

Boxing at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Super heavyweight

The Super Heavyweight class is an even on the Boxing at the 2010 Commonwealth Games competition. Super Heavyweights were limited to those boxers weighing over 91 kilograms and thus is the heaviest weight class in boxing. 16 boxers will compete....

 category at the 2010 Commonwealth Games

2010 Commonwealth Games

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. On 13 October 2010, in the finals of the event he defeated Tariq Abdul Haqq of Trinidad & Tobago 5-1. In the fifth Commonwealth Boxing Championships held in New Delhi

New Delhi

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 from 10–18 March 2010, he along with five other fellow Indians won gold medal. He defeated New Zealand's Joseph Parker 7-3 in the finals. He won a bronze medal in the Men's Super heavyweight

Boxing at the 2010 Asian Games

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 category at the 2010 Asian Games

2010 Asian Games

The 2010 Asian Games, also known as the XVI Asiad, was a multi-sport event celebrated in Guangzhou, China from November 12 to November 27, 2010. Guangzhou was the second Chinese city to host the Games, after Beijing in 1990...

, as he lost in the semifinals.