They are relatively new to don the olive green, but have made their mark.Recently inducted women boxers from the Indian Army have punched their way to top positions in the Asian Elite Boxing Championship – 2026, clinching two gold medals and a silver medal.They were among the four Indian women gold medallists at the meet. The lone Indian male gold medallist was also from the Army.The meet was held at Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia from March 28 to April 10, in which 230 boxers from 25 nations participated.Overall, the 20-member Indian squad, which fielded both male and female boxers, including civilians, secured second place.The Army’s women medallists were all from the Corps of Military Police (CMP) Center and School, Bengaluru. The CMP is the only arm in the Army to have inducted women personnel in the ranks and file, when recruitment began in 2022 under the Agnipath scheme.Naib Subedar Preeti Pawar and Havildar Arundhati Chaudhary won gold in the 54-Kg and 70-Kg weight categories, respectively, while Naib Subedar Jaismine Lamboria won the silver in the 57-Kg weight category.In fact, Naib Subedar Jaismine had made history at the World Boxing Championship -2025 by becoming the first female boxer in the Army to win a gold medal. She was awarded the Sena Medal in January 2026 for her performance. She hails from a family of boxers and joined the Army in 2022.Naib Subedar Preeti, who hails from Bhiwani in Haryana and joined the Army last year, was the first woman athlete to be directly inducted as a Junior Commissioned Officer in the Indian Army and is a World Boxing Cup gold medallist.Hailing from Kota in Rajasthan, Havildar Arundhati had joined the Army in 2022 and is an international-level boxer, having become the Junior World Champion in 2021 and winning a gold medal in the AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships.In addition, the Army also has among its ranks other international women boxers such as Nupur Sheoran, a two-time gold medallist at the 2025 World Boxing Cup, and Sakshi Dhanda, who clinched a gold medal at the 8th Elite Women’s National Boxing Championship in 2025.With the Army opening its ranks to women personnel and their strength expected to increase significantly in the coming years, greater attention is being given to women in sports, recruiting meritorious female athletes and establishing the Army Sports Girls Company in Pune for this purpose.Several disciplines such as shooting, archery, wrestling, rowing, fencing, and weightlifting have been identified for them. They are trained at the Army Sports Institute (ASI), Pune, a premier training establishment under the Army’s Mission Olympics programme, which is run in collaboration with the Sports Authority of India.The ASI was established in July 2001 as a multi-disciplinary institute to identify and nurture the vast talent of sportspersons within the Armed Forces Army and recruit potential sportspersons from across the country.