Mysore :

City resident C.A. Kuttappa, serving as Subedar in the Army, is the official coach for Olympian Vijender Singh, who won the bronze medal for India in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

The duo, along with nine other boxers and two more coaches, is participating in the World Boxing Championship being held at Almaty, Kazakhstan, from Oct. 11 to Oct. 27. The team had undergone training at the Sports Authority of India (SAI) in Patiala, Punjab.

Kuttappa, a resident of Gokulam in city and hailing from Chenanda family, has been a coach for the Indian team since May 2009, which participated in Grand Prix Boxing championship at Czech Republic, World Boxing Championship in Italy, 19th Commonwealth Games in 2010 at Cuba, CISM World Military Games in 2011 at Brazil, 62nd Services Boxing Championship in 2012 at Pune and other major championships.

He has won many gold and silver medals in national level boxing championships since 1994.

When SOM spoke to Vijender Singh recently, he was full of praises for Kuttappa (his coach) and said that he aimed for the gold medal in the next Olympics. He is currently focusing on “speed.”

“I loved individual sports since childhood and was fascinated with martial arts. I then chose boxing,” said Vijender and added that if he were not to pursue boxing as a profession, he would have become an Army soldier. Vijender is serving as Deputy SP in the Punjab Police Department.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Sports News / October 12th, 2013