Honorary Captain Hawa Singh Sheoran (16 December 1937 in Umarwas, Punjab now Haryana – 14 August 2000, in Bhiwani, Haryana) was an Indian Heavyweight boxer, who dominated Indian and Asian amateur boxing for a decade in his weight class.
He won the Asian Games gold medal in the Heavyweight category in consecutive editions of the games, in the 1966 Asiad and the 1970 Asiad both held in Bangkok, Thailand - a feat unmatched by any Indian boxer to date (August 2008).
He won the National Championships in the Heavyweight category a record 11 consecutive times — from 1961 to 1972.
After retiring, he took up coaching and was the co-founder of the Bhiwani Boxing Club[2] which produced a slew of Indian boxers in the 1990s and 2000s (decade), including Olympic medallist Vijender Singh.
[citation needed] He died suddenly in Bhiwani on 14 August 2000 – 15 days before he was to have received the Dronacharya Award.