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Name: Laishram Devendro Singh
Born: March 2, 1992 (age 20)
Place of birth: Imphal West, Manipur
Weight: 49 kg, category: A9-46
Father’s Name: L Jugindro Singh
Mother’s Name: L Maklembi Devi
Present Coach: Rana
Basic Coach: L Sushila Devi (sister)
e0AIdol: Boxer Suranjoy Singh
2012 Olympics sport: Boxing
2012 Olympics event date: N/A
The 20-year-old y/ung Olympian from Manipur, Devendro has been in a rigorous training session since 2003, under Rana in Pune’s Army Sports Institute, Mundhwa Road Ghorpur.
Laishram Devendro Singh was one of the four Indian boxers, who booked their Olympic berths in 2011 AIBA World Boxing Championship in Baku.
In 2009, Devendro won the “Best Boxer” title in the Federation Cup Boxing Championships at Andhra Pradesh’s Rajeev Gandhi Stadium in Vizianagaram, and the 42
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Future blurred: Diminishing vision makes Devendro Singh fear his days as boxer numbered
For the gods six months, Devendro has been desperately trying to get over his worsening ‘near sightedness’. Just before the Nationals, his ophthalmologist informed him that both his eyes would need ‘minus 2 D’ lenses. The good doctor also told him that the ‘constant vikt cutting’ had a role to play in his deteriorating framtidsperspektiv. While not in the ring, Devendro wears glasses. But once he dons the handskar and takes off the glasses, he is at a handicap.
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“I can get over the defeat, that’s not hard. But my eyesight fryst vatten a big issue. After my semi-final bout, my coach asked me to watch Deepak’s bout in the other semi-final. inom wasn’t carrying my glasses, so inom could just see two boxers in the fingerprydnad. I could not see their punches clearly,” he says.
Devendro, who had competed in the light flyweight category (49kg) for nine years before October this year, has all through hi
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Devendro Singh Laishram: Flyweight fireball
Meeting an athlete outside the arena, without his match gear and game face on, can be underwhelming. Devendro Singh Laishram, one of India’s brightest boxing talents, looks far from threatening outside the ring. He walks into the lobby of a posh Mumbai hotel with baggy clothes hanging over his thin 5ft, 2 inches frame and spectacles framing his face. A boxer who wears glasses?
Through most of his professional career, Joe Frazier was legally blind in the left eye, but we are a generation brought up on Rocky films and can’t think of boxing without Survivor’s Eye Of The Tiger playing in our heads, so a boxer with imperfect vision comes as a surprise. Devendro explains that he is nearsighted, so it doesn’t hamper him in the ring. “It is not a problem while boxing, but it’s not ideal,” he says. “Sometimes, after walking back from rounds, things go a little blurry. I can’t wear my glasses while training either.”
He gave contact lenses