Background
Zoramthanga was born Run Nawn to a Chinese family in Selawn village near the town of Falam in Chinese State, Myanmar.
Zoramthanga was born Run Nawn to a Chinese family in Selawn village near the town of Falam in Chinese State, Myanmar.
His family moved to Tithim village near Tahan-Kalaymyo. There he joined the Myanmar Army and took up boxing. To further his career, Zoramthanga moved to Mizoram in India, changing his name and jumpstarting his boxing career in 1985.
Zoramthanga participated in several national and international boxing championships for Mizoram and India.
He fared well at the World Amateur Boxing Championships in Moscow in 1989, where he reached the quarter finals, before losing to Rogelio Marcelo. He defeated Jin Yang of South of Korea on points in the preliminaries, and Paul Weir of Scotland in the quarterfinals, also on points.
However, unlike most amateur boxing tournaments, the Boxing World Cup had a third place play-off to decide the bronze medal position. Zoramthanga defeated fellow Indian boxer Dhamendar Yadav 17–4 on points to clinch the bronze medal.
This was India"s first medal in an international boxing tournament outside the Asian Games.
He retired from boxing in 1992. He held the post of Sports Promotion Officer until he died abruptly of hypertension at the Lunglei Civil Hospital in Lunglei, Mizoram on 9 February 2005.