Boxing champion Mary Kom !!!

Chungnijang Mary Kom Hamangte, born in Manipur, popularly known as Mary Kom, is an Indian Olympic boxer. She is the only woman to win the title of Vikram six times in the World Hockey Boxing Championships and is the only woman boxer to win a medal in each of the seven World Championships.

Since childhood, Kom has liked athletics boxing and was good at them. She became interested in boxing after watching Dingko Singh in 2000. That same year, she began training with M. Narjit Singh (Manipur State Boxing Coach) at Khuman Lampak, Imphal.

Kom has won the World Boxing championship five times in a row. She is the only woman to get a medal and trophy in all six world championships. She is also the only Indian woman to qualify for boxing in the 2012 London Olympics. At the 2013 Games, she competed in the flyweight category 51kg and won a bronze medal.[2] She had also been ranked as No. 1 AIBA World Women’s Ranking Light Flyweight category

personal life

Kom is married to the footballer Karung Onkholer (Onler). Kom first met her husband in 2000 after her luggage was stolen while traveling by train to Bangalore. In New Delhi while on her way to the National Games in Punjab she met Onkholer who was studying law at Delhi University. Onkholer was the president of the North East students body and helped Kom. They became friends and thereafter began dating each other. After four years they were married in 2005. She lives with her family in Manipur.

Career

After her marriage, Kom took a short hiatus from boxing. After giving birth to her twins in 2007, Kom started training once again. She won a silver medal at the 2008 Asian Women’s Boxing Championship in India and a fourth successive gold medal at the 2008 AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships in China, followed by a gold medal at the 2009 Asian Indoor Games in Vietnam.

In 2010, Kom won the gold medal at the Asian Women’s Boxing Championship in Kazakhstan, and at the 2010 AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships in Barbados, her fifth consecutive gold at the championship. She competed in Barbados in the 48 kg weight category, after AIBA had stopped using the 46 kg class. In the 2010 Asian Games, she competed in the 51 kg class and won a bronze medal. In 2011, she won gold in the 48 kg class at the Asian Women’s Cup in China.

Awards and recognitions

Mary being awarded Padma Vibhushan, c. 2021
Mary Kom was a set a new standard in amateur boxing without ever competing in professional boxing. In 2015, Kom became the first amateur to surpass several professional athletes in India in earnings, endorsements and awards. She is the first amateur athlete to win the Padma Bhushan.

National awards

-Padma Vibhushan (Sports), 2020
-Padma Bhushan (Sports), 2013[69]
-Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna award, 2009
-padma Shri (Sports), 2006
-Arjuna Award (Boxing), 2003
Other awards and recognition
The International Boxing Association (AIBA) awarded Mary Kom with the first AIBA Legends awards for “promising boxing career”
The International Boxing Association (AIBA) announced Mary Kom as the brand ambassador for 2016 AIBA Women’s World

National

  • Gold – 1st Women Nat. Boxing Championship, Chennai 6–12.2.2001
  • The East Open Boxing Champ, Bengal 11–14 December 2001
  • 2nd Sr World Women Boxing Championship, New Delhi 26–30 December 2001
  • National Women Sort Meet, N. Delhi 26–30 December 2001
  • 32nd National Games, Hyderabad 2002
  • 3rd Sr World Women Boxing Champ, Aizawl 4–8.3.2003
  • 4th Sr WWBC, Kokrajar, Assam 24–28 February 2004
  • 5th Sr WWBC, Kerala 26–30 December 2004
  • 6th Sr WWBC, Jamshedpur 29 November-3.12.2005
  • 10th WNBC, Jamshedpur lost QF by 1–4 on 5 October 2009

Boxing Championships.

-People of the Year- Limca Book of Records, 2007
-CNN-IBN & Reliance Industries’ Real Heroes Award 14.4. 2008 Mon
-Pepsi MTV Youth Icon 2008
‘-Magnificent Mary’, AIBA 2008
-International Boxing Association’s Ambassador for Women’s Boxing 2009 (TSE 30 July 2009 Thur)
-Sportswoman of the year 2010, Sahara Sports Award
-Olympians for Life by WOA.
-Honorary Doctorate degree (D.Litt) from North-Eastern Hill University on 29 March 2016 and (DPhil) from Kaziranga University on 14 January 2019
-For the bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics
~₹5 million (US$63,000) cash award and two acres of land from the Manipur Government
~₹2.5 million (US$31,000) cash award from the Rajasthan Government
~₹2 million (US$25,000) cash award from the Assam Government[82]
~₹1 million (US$13,000) cash award from the Arunachal Pradesh Government
~₹1 million (US$13,000) cash award from the Ministry of Tribal Affairs (India)
~₹4 million (US$50,000) cash award from the North Eastern Council
~’Meethoileima’ title, Manipur Govt. (2018)

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