SINGH Manpreet < Back  
Sport Boxing
CGA India   
Gender Men
Born 14 May 1988
Height1.75 m
Weight 91 kg
Human Interest
Sport Specific Information
Club / Team SSCB: India
General Interest
Memorable sporting achievement Silver in heavyweight 91kg division at 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games. (Melbourne 2006)
Injuries He suffered a nose injury in the semifinal of the Memorial Boxing Championship in Makhachkala, Russia in 2010. (ddinews.vo.in, 14 Jul 2010)
Ambitions To compete at the world championships. (Indian Express, 18 Jul 2009)
Other information RUNAWAY
In 2005, as a teenager, he rang away from his village to his uncle's house in Pathankot to take part in an Army recruitment drive, leading him to a sports career as a boxer. (Indian Express, 18 Jul 2009)