Vikas Krishan Yadav

Vikas won a gold medal in 2018 commonwealth games in Australia defeating Australia, Zambia northern Ireland and Cameroon. He became the first Indian male boxer to win gold medals at both Asian and commonwealth games. In Asian games 2018 he won bronze. He had to withdraw because of a serious eye injury.

On 15 November 2018, Krishan signed a multiyear promotional contract with American based Top Rank.

Vikas Krishan Yadav qualified for the Rio Olympic Games by finishing with a bronze medal at the Olympic qualifiers held in Baku in June 2016. He has cruised into the round of 16 in Boxing 75 kg category at the Rio 2016 Olympics. The Indian pugilist beat USA’s Charles Cornell by a unanimous decision to progress at the Summer Games. He went on to defeat Önder Şipal of Turkey a few days later to enter the next round of the tournament. Vikas Krishnan Yadav was defeated by Bektemir Melikuziev of Uzbekistan in the Quarter Final of Men's Middle 75 kg Boxing in Rio Olympic on 16 August 2016.

Due to the ban on the Boxing Federation of India in 2015, Vikas competed at the Worlds and Asian Championships under the AIBA flag. Vikas Krishan Yadav is only second Indian after Olympic bronze medlist Vijender Singh to qualify for Three Olympic.

On September 5, 2015, Vikas reached the final bout of the Middleweight category and lost to Bektemir Melikuziev of Uzbekistan, winning the silver medal.

On October 10, 2015, Vikas exited the World Boxing Championships in Doha, Qatar by losing 3-0 to Hosam Abdin of Egypt in the quarter-finals.

Vikas is currently engaged in the middleweight category, the same category where Vijender Singh won an Olympic bronze medal in the 2008 Olympics. As of September 25, 2015, Vikas is ranked 4th overall.

After his premature exit from the 2012 Olympics, Yadav took a year off from boxing and focussed on completing his education at the Kurukshetra University and his training with the Haryana State Police. Presently, Yadav is DSP in Haryana Police .

He was eliminated from the 2012 Olympic Games in London in the preliminary round, losing 13:15.

Asian Youth Boxing Championships: The 2010 Asian Youth Boxing Championships were held in Tehran, Iran during the month of March 2010. Yadav won his first international medal which was a gold medal at the tournament.

2010 Summer Youth Olympics|2010 Youth Olympics: On 24 August 2010 in Singapore, he won a bronze medal in Lightweight category after being defeated by Evaldas Petrauskas of Lithuania in the bronze medal bout.

2010 AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships|2010 Youth World Amateur Boxing Championships: He won a gold medal at Baku in the Lightweight category, defeating Evaldas Petrauskas of Lithuania, the same opponent he faced earlier in the year at the Youth Olympics.

2010 Asian Games: On 25 November 2010 in Guangzhou, China, in the Lightweight category, he won the gold medal defeating Hu Qing of China 5-4.

Yadav was born in Singhwa Khas village in Hisar district. His father Krishan Kumar Yadav is an employee in the Electricity Department. In 1994 he came to Bhiwani along with his father, who was transferred to this city. In 2003, at the age of 10, Yadav joined the Bhiwani Boxing Club. Later, he received training in the Army Sports Institute at Pune.

Vikas Krishan Yadav (born 10 February 1992) is an Indian male boxer from Bhiwani district in Haryana, who won a gold medal in the 2010 Asian Games in the Lightweight category and a gold medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games