Tajamul Islam

Tajamul Islam (born 27 December 2008) is an Indian kickboxer from Kaloosa, Bandipora district in Jammu and Kashmir.[1]

Tajamul Islam
BornTajamul
(2008-12-27) 27 December 2008
Tarkpora, Bandipora district, India
Other namesTajamul
NationalityIndian
Height1.55 m (5 ft 1 in)
Notable club(s)Haider Sports Academy

Career

Tajamul Islam began kickboxing in 2014.[2] In 2015, she won a goal medal at her state-level kickboxing championships and won a gold medal in India's National Kickboxing Championship that same year. She won another gold medal at the U-8 World Kickboxing Championship in 2016. She won a gold medal in the 2021 U-14 World Kickboxing Championship held in Cairo, Egypt. She received the Young Achiever Award 2021. She was promoted by Jammu & Kashmir Bank in their yearly calendar.[3]

Medals

GOLD
  • 2015: state-level kickboxing championship in sub-junior category, held in Jammu
  • 2015: National Kickboxing Championship in sub-junior category, held in Delhi
  • 2016: World Kickboxing Championship in under-8 category, held in Italy
  • 2021: World Kickboxing Championship in under-14 category, held in Cairo, Egypt[4]

References

  1. Pandit, M Saleem (30 October 2021). "Kashmiri girl Tajamul Islam wins world kickboxing gold &#124". The Times of India. She was born in Tarkpora, a remote village in north Kashmir's Bandipora district, 56km from Srinagar.
  2. "The nine-year-old Kashmiri girl who rules the kickboxing world". BBC News. 1 December 2016. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  3. "Srinagar's Tajamul Islam wins gold medal in U-14 World Kickboxing Championship in Egypt's Cairo". www.timesnownews.com.
  4. "Kashmiri teen Tajamul Islam scripts history, wins gold in World Kick Boxing championship for a second time". The Financial Express. Retrieved 8 January 2022.


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