Mary Kom Biography

Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom, known as Mary Kom, is a legendary Indian amateur boxer and politician. She is the only female boxer to win the World Amateur Boxing Championship six times and won a bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics. [1, 2]

Mangte Chungneijang "Mary" Kom^[2] (born 24 November 1982)^[1] is an Indian Olympic boxer, politician, and former Member of Rajya Sabha.^[3][4][5] She is the only woman to win the World Amateur Boxing Championship six times, the only female boxer to have won a medal in each one of the first seven World Championships, and the only boxer (male or female) to win eight World Championship medals.^[6][7][8][9] Nicknamed Magnificent Mary, she was the only Indian female boxer to have qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she competed in the flyweight (51 kg) category and won a bronze medal.^[10] She had also been ranked as the world's No. 1 female light-flyweight by the International Boxing Association (amateur) (AIBA).^[11][12] She became the first Indian female boxer to win a gold medal in the Asian Games in 2014 at Incheon, South Korea and is the first Indian female boxer to win gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.^[13] She is also the only boxer to become Asian Amateur Boxing Champion for a record six times.^[14][15] Mary Kom won the 51 kg gold in President's Cup in Indonesia.^[16]