Mayor felicitates boxer Alfiya
   Date :28-Oct-2020

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 Mayor Sandip Joshi (L) recently felicitated city’s only
international boxer Alfiya Pathan (C).
 
 
Principal Correspondent :
 
NAGPUR Mayor Sandip Joshi recently felicitated city’s only international boxer Alfiya Pathan. The felicitation was series of such acknowledgements of city women carried out by the Mayor during Navratri celebrations. On Dussehra, Mayor Joshi and deputy Mayor Manisha Kothe felicitated Alfiya at her residence. Mayor Joshi congratulated Alfiya and wished her luck for future. “Alfiya is proud of our city, state and country. I wish her luck for her future endeavours,” Joshi said while praising the boxer.
 
Alfiya has represented India in Junior international meets and has won several medals. Daughter of Police Head Constable Akram Khan Pathan, Alfiya won Asian Championship gold medal in 2019. She has also won a silver medal in the Nations Cup Boxing Championship held at Serbia in 2018. In the next competition at the same venue she won a bronze medal for the country.
 
Alfiya has won many a medals for Maharashtra and Nagpur in national and State-level championships. Last year in November she had won a gold medal in the SGFI State Boxing Championship where she had reportedly floored her opponents in less than 90 seconds with referee stopping the contest.