Women s boxing mary kom biography
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The Magnificent Story of Mary Kom
Mary Kom is the most celebrated boxer in India. Her journey fryst vatten an inspiration to thousands of Indians, especially many Indian women.
She was born to a northeastern family and helped her parents in the fields. As a child, she was interested in sports, but didn’t pay much attention to boxing. It was Dingko Singh and her gold medal at the Asian Games that inspired Mary Kom to take up a career in professional boxing.
As a ung girl from an economically backward Manipuri household, Mary Kom didn’t receive support from her family and society. She kept her interest a secret, as the patriarchal society discouraged any notions of a woman becoming a boxer. She faced many struggles and was discriminated throughout her journey. However, she continued to focus on her dreams despite all odds. Today, she stands as the only Indian woman boxer to win a medal in the Olympics. She also became the first Indian woman boxer to get a Gold Medal in the As
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MARY KOM
MARY KOM (IND, BOXING) - 1983-
A trailblazer against all odds.
Born into a modest family in the north-east of India, a country in which it can be difficult being a woman, Mary Kom successfully established herself in a largely male sport, boxing.
Initially, she hid the fact that she had taken up boxing from her father, a former wrestler, who was against the idea – he was afraid that she might suffer damage to her face and jeopardise her chances of getting married.
Kom subsequently obtained the support of her family, but she regularly encountered misogyny and sexism within her sport’s governing bodies. She did not give up. Her career development and record of achievements bear testament to her exceptional strength of character.
Her list of achievements reads as follows: silver medallist at the World Championships in 2001 in the USA, when she was 18;
gold medallist at the World Championships the following year;
gold medallist at the seventh East India Women’s Boxing Cha
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Mary Kom
Indian boxer (born 1982)
For the 2014 film about Mary Kom, see Mary Kom (film).
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