Home Tokyo Olympics Meet Lovlina Borgohain, India's latest medal winner at Tokyo Olympics Following in the footsteps of her twin sisters Licha and Lima, Borgohain first took up kickboxing. She switched to amateur boxing after meeting her first coach Padum Boro, who worked at Sports Authority of India’s Shillong and Dimapur centers. Team Sportstar 30 July, 2021 10:01 IST Indian boxer Lovlina Borgohain with her coaching staff after beating World No. 2 Chen Nien-Chin of Chinese Taipei 4-1. - BFI Team Sportstar 30 July, 2021 10:01 IST Indian boxer Lovlina Borgohain beat World No. 2 Chen Nien-Chin of Chinese Taipei 4-1 to win her women's welterweight quarterfinal clash at the Tokyo Olympics on Friday, assuring India of a medal in the process. India's only medal at the Games so far has been weightlifter Mirabai Chanu's silver in the 49kg division.Borgohain becomes the third Indian boxer to win an Olympic medal, after Vijender Singh (men's middleweight bronze, Beijing 2008) and Mary Kom (women's flyweight bronze, London 2012). Lovlina Borgohain: Want to win gold medal at Tokyo Olympics Following in the footsteps of her twin sisters Licha and Lima, Borgohain first took up kickboxing. She switched to amateur boxing after meeting her first coach Padum Boro, who worked at Sports Authority of India’s Shillong and Dimapur centers. BREAKING: #LovlinaBorgohain assures #TeamIndia of at least a bronze medal as she comfortably gets past Chinese Taipei's Nien-Chin Chen. She absolutely bossed this bout #Boxing | #Olympics | @sportstarweb pic.twitter.com/moLqVUzyCO— Shyam Vasudevan (@JesuisShyam) July 30, 2021 Boro spotted Borgohain at the trials held by SAI in 2012. Her game developed with time and she went on to represent the country in the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games after claiming a gold in the India Open and bronze medals in the Asian championships in Vietnam and President’s Cup in Kazakhstan. Tokyo Olympics: Indian boxers profile, ranking, opponents, form guide The same year Borgohain earned a bronze medal on debut in the World Championship in Delhi and added another bronze in the next edition in Russia a year later.The Arjuna award winner may be the most famous face among the 600-odd people of Bara Mukhia village in Golaghat district of Assam, but she is not satisfied with her achievements. Despite losing out on valuable international exposure last year due to Covid-19, 23-year-old Borgohain is determined to give her best in Tokyo. Click here for our full coverage of the Tokyo Olympics. For more updates, follow Sportstar on :