Two-time boxing world champion Nikhat Zareen was accorded a grand welcome at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Shamshabad today.
Zareen created history to become the first Indian boxer after Mary Kom to win two golds at the world championships.
She claimed her second World Boxing Championship gold with a 5-0 victory against Vietnam's Nguyen Rho Tam and retained the title on March 26 in New Delhi, becoming only the second Indian woman to achieve this feat.
Telangana Minister for Sports and Culture V Srinivas Goud, Telangana Sports Authority Chairman Anjaneya Goud, and Zareen's family members welcomed her at the airport, and hailed her achievement.
Speaking on the occasion, Goud said that everyone in Telangana was proud of Zareen's achievement, and that her record would remain etched in history.
"Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has also conveyed his special wishes to her, and will honour Zareen soon. In addition, the State government has already offered a DCP post to the boxing champion, and is ready to extend all the necessary and possible help to her to enable her to set up a boxing academy in the State," he said.
Zareen thanked the State government for extending the support, and said that she would strive hard to bring many more laurels to the State and the country in the days to come.