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    Mary Kom is an Indian Olympic boxer from Manipur who is a 5-time World Amateur Boxing Champion and the only woman to win medals in six world championships. She competed in the 2012 London Olympics in the 51kg category, winning a bronze medal. As of 2018, she was ranked number 1 in the women's 45-48kg category by the AIBA. Mary Kom is the first Indian woman to win a gold medal at both the Asian Games and Commonwealth Games. She grew up in a poor family in Manipur and overcame obstacles to become the top female boxer in the world.

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    Mary Kom is an Indian Olympic boxer from Manipur who is a 5-time World Amateur Boxing Champion and the only woman to win medals in six world championships. She competed in the 2012 London Olympics in the 51kg category, winning a bronze medal. As of 2018, she was ranked number 1 in the women's 45-48kg category by the AIBA. Mary Kom is the first Indian woman to win a gold medal at both the Asian Games and Commonwealth Games. She grew up in a poor family in Manipur and overcame obstacles to become the top female boxer in the world.

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    Mary Kom is an Indian Olympic boxer from Manipur who is a 5-time World Amateur Boxing Champion and the only woman to win medals in six world championships. She competed in the 2012 London Olympics in the 51kg category, winning a bronze medal. As of 2018, she was ranked number 1 in the women's 45-48kg category by the AIBA. Mary Kom is the first Indian woman to win a gold medal at both the Asian Games and Commonwealth Games. She grew up in a poor family in Manipur and overcame obstacles to become the top female boxer in the world.

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    Mary Kom Project

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    Mary Kom is an Indian Olympic boxer from Manipur who is a 5-time World Amateur Boxing Champion and the only woman to win medals in six world championships. She competed in the 2012 London Olympics in the 51kg category, winning a bronze medal. As of 2018, she was ranked number 1 in the women's 45-48kg category by the AIBA. Mary Kom is the first Indian woman to win a gold medal at both the Asian Games and Commonwealth Games. She grew up in a poor family in Manipur and overcame obstacles to become the top female boxer in the world.

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    Mary Kom is an Indian Olympic boxer who hails from the North Eastern state of

    Manipur. Mary Kom is a 5-time World Amateur Boxing Champion, and the only
    woman boxer to win a medal in the six world championships apiece. In 2012. Mary
    became (and remains) the only Indian woman boxer to qualify for the Summer
    Olympics when she competed in the London Olympics. She went on to clinch the
    bronze medal in the 51 kg flyweight category.

    As of November 2018, Mary Kom is ranked as the No. 1 boxer in the women’s
    45-48 kg category with 500 points along with Russia’s Paltceva Ekaterina. Kom is
    also the first Indian woman boxer to earn a Gold Medal at the Asian Games (2014 in
    Incheon, South Korea) and at the Commonwealth Games (2018 Gold Coast,
    Australia). Kom is also as a member of the Rajya Sabha after being nominated by
    the President of India on 26 April 2016. Mary is an active supporter of wild animals.

    Mary Kom’s rise to the top of women’s world boxing is anything but a straightforward
    one.

    Full Name Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom


    Nick Name Magnificent Mary
    Sport Category (Current) 44-48 Kg
    World Ranking (Current) 1
    Age 35 (1 March 1983)
    Hometown Imphal, Manipur
    Height 5ft 2in (1.58 m)
    MP, in India’s Upper House, Rajya
    Occupation
    Sabha
    Mary Kom Biography
    Mary was born to Tonpa Kom and Akham Kom in a small village of Kangathei,
    Manipur. Manipur is one of the backward regions of the seven North Eastern states
    and in those days, it was a strife-torn state. Mary Kom grew in the midst of poverty
    and famine. She had the quality of being responsible from the start itself, as she took
    care of her three younger siblings. Her parents, who were peasants and toiled in the
    fields of Jhum.
    Kom was very much interested in playing different sports during her schooling days.
    She started off by participating in the various athletic competitions mostly related to
    Discus Throw and Shot Put. However, she started following a famous Manipuri boxer
    Dingko Singh and soon took up picked up the boxing gloves. However, boxing was a
    thing that her parents, especially her father, Tonpa Kom, despised the most. Their
    reason – Boxing is a male sport. He felt marriage would indeed reduce Mary’s
    chances of finding an able groom. The irony was Tonpa was himself an ex-
    sportsperson. He used to play wrestling during his heydays before resorting to
    farming due to economic conditions.

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