Jaismine Lamboria

Jaismine Lamboria was born on 30 August 2001 in Bhiwani, Haryana — the town Indian boxing still calls Mini Cuba. The medals on the family walls belonged to others first. Her great-grandfather Captain Hawa Singh won consecutive Asian Games heavyweight golds in 1966 and 1970 and helped found the Bhiwani Boxing Club that later produced Vijender Singh. Uncles Sandeep and Parvinder were national champions. Jaismine put the gloves on around fourteen, tall and rangy for her class, and grew up knowing the surname carried expectation. What none of them had was a World Championships gold. That gap is now hers.

The early senior sheet was bronze and patience. Asian Championships bronze in Dubai in 2021 at 57 kg. Commonwealth bronze in Birmingham in 2022 at 60 kg — a semifinal loss that still put India on the podium. After Birmingham she became the first woman boxer inducted into the Indian Army, joining the Corps of Military Police and training under the Mission Olympics Wing at the Army Sports Institute in Pune. She spent nearly three years up at 60 kg, then dropped back to 57 kg to reclaim an Olympic quota when teammate Parveen Hooda was suspended. Paris 2024 ended in the round of 32: a 0–5 loss to Philippines’ Nesthy Petecio, the Tokyo Olympic silver medallist. Lamboria has called that night an eye-opener more than a verdict.

The rebuild was loud. Coaches Chhote Lal and Mohammed Aitesamuddin pushed strength work and men’s sparring at ASI. Astana’s World Boxing Cup in 2025 brought gold over Brazil’s Jucielen Romeu. Liverpool’s Worlds final that September brought the family first: a 4–1 split decision over Poland’s Julia Szeremeta, the Paris Olympic silver medallist. Weeks later in New Delhi she won the World Boxing Cup Finals 4–1 over Chinese Taipei’s Wu Shih-yi while managing a left-shoulder injury from Liverpool. The southpaw who once looked cautious had learned to finish.

Glasgow 2026 put her back on a Commonwealth sheet with a medal already locked by the two-bronze format — the tenth Indian boxing podium of these Games before the finals. Colour is still open; gold would match the Worlds year. For The Medalist she is the Bhiwani story in a sharper key: Army pathway, a family club that finally has a world champion, and an Olympic cycle that still asks whether Paris was a bad night or a weight-class problem. LA28 is the longer question. The next answer is whether Glasgow’s assured bronze climbs.