Devika Ghorpade, 16, who won a gold medal in the 50kg final at the 4th Junior Girls National Boxing Championships at Delhi Public School (DPS) in Sonipat recently, thanked her parents who let her take up boxing nearly five years ago. 

Pune's teen boxer Devika told www.mid-day.com that unlike other parents who discourage their kids to take up sport as a career, her father Satyajit and mother Dhanashri were very supportive.