Mary Kom India Boxing Player:
Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom (born 1 March 1983), also known as MC Mary Kom, or simply , is an Indian boxer. She is a five-time World Amateur Boxing champion, and the only woman boxer to have won a medal in each one of the six world championships. Nicknamed "Magnificent Mary", she is the only Indian woman boxer to have qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics, competing in the flyweight (51 kg) category and winning the bronze medal. She has also been ranked as No. 4 AIBA World Women's Ranking Flyweight category. She became the first Indian woman boxer to get a Gold Medal in the Asian Games in 2014 in Incheon, South Korea.Early life:
Mary Kom was born in Kangathei, in Churachandpur district of Manipur to a poor tribal family. Her parents, Mangte Tonpa Kom and Mangte Akham Kom, worked in jhum fields. She did her education from Loktak Christian Model High School, Moirang, up to her class VI standard and attended St. Xavier Catholic School, Moirang, up to class VIII. She then moved to Adimjati High School, Imphal, for her schooling for class IX and X, but was unable to pass the matriculation exam. Not wishing to reappear for them, she quit her school and gave her examination from NIOS, Imphal and graduation from Churachandpur College.Although she had a keen interest in athletics from childhood, it was the success of Dingko Singh that inspired her to become a boxer in 2000. She started her training under the close eye of M. Narjit Singh, Manipur State Boxing Coach at Khuman Lampak, Imphal.
Return to boxing:
After a two-year break, she won a silver medal at the 2008 Asian Women's Boxing Championship in India and a fourth successive gold medal at the AIBA Women's World Boxing Championship in China, followed by a gold medal at the 2009 Asian Indoor Games in Vietnam.[citation needed]
In 2010, Kom won the gold medal at the Asian Women's Boxing Championship in Kazakhstan and at the AIBA Women's World Boxing Championship
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 classIn the 2010 Asian Games, she competed in the 51 kg class - the lowest in the contest - and won a bronze medal.[citation needed] In 2011, she won gold in the 48 kg class at the Asian Women's Cup in China,[citation needed] and in 2012 took the gold medal in the 51 kg class at the Asian Women's Boxing Championship in Mongolia.
On 3 October 2010, she, along with Sanjay and Harshit Jain, had the honour of bearing the Queen's Baton in its opening ceremony run in the stadium for the 2010 Commonwealth Games of Delhi. She did not compete, however, as women's boxing was not included in the Commonwealth Games.
On 1 October 2014, she won her first Gold Medal at the Asian Games held at Incheon, South Korea by beating Kazakhstan’s
Zhaina Shekerbekova in the flyweight (51 kg) summit clash. The medal is
also the first Gold for any Indian woman at Asian Games.Mary, a five-time world champion, had won several medals in the 46 and 48 kg categories. She was forced to shift to this category and gain weight two years ago after the world body decided to allow women’s boxing in only three weight categories—the lowest one being 51 kg.
Super Fight League:
Mary Kom appeared on the final episode of the Super Fight League's mixed martial arts reality show - SFL Challengers. During this time Kom was in talks with owners Raj Kundra and Sanjay Dutt to work with the SFL in some manner other than being a fighter.On 24 September, the Super Fight League announced that Kom will serve as the SFL's brand ambassador.
National:
- Gold – 1st Women Nat. Boxing Championship, Chennai 6–12.2.2001
- The East Open Boxing Champ, Bengal 11–14.12.2001
- 2nd Sr World Women Boxing Championship, New Delhi 26–30.12.2001
- National Women Sort Meet, N. Delhi 26–30.12.2001
- 32nd National Games, Hyderabad 2002
- 3rd Sr World Women Boxing Champ, Aizawl 4–8.3.2003
- 4th Sr WWBC, Kokrajar, Assam 24–28.2.2004
- 5th Sr WWBC, Kerala 26–30.12.2004
- 6th Sr WWBC, Jamshedpur 29 November-3.12.2005
- 10th WNBC, Jamshedpur lost QF by 1–4 on 5.10.2009
Awards and recognitions:
- Padma Bhushan (Sports), 2013
- Arjuna Award (Boxing), 2003
- Padma Shree (Sports), 2010
- Contender for Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, 2007
- 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
- Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, 2009
- International Boxing Association's Ambassador for Women's Boxing 2009 (TSE 30 July 2009 Thur)
- Sportswoman of the year 2010, Sahara Sports Award
- INR 50 lakh (US$81,000) cash award from the Rajasthan Government.
- INR 50 lakh (US$81,000) cash award and two acres of land from the Manipur Government.
- INR 20 lakh (US$32,000) cash award from the Assam Government.
- INR 10 lakh (US$16,000) cash award from the Arunachal Pradesh Government.
- INR1 0 lakh (US$16,000) cash award from the Ministry of Tribal Affairs (India).
- INR 40 lakh (US$65,000) cash award from the North Eastern Council.
Media:
Her personal history, Unbreakable, was co-created by Dina Serto and distributed by Harper Collins in late 2013.
In 2014, Priyanka Chopra assumed the principle part as Mary Kom in historical film about her life. The motion picture is steered by Omung Kumar and was discharged on 5 September 2014.
Personal life:
She is hitched to K.onler Kom and has twin children, Rechungvar and Khupneivar. They initially met in 2001 when Kom was at New Delhi on her approach to National Games in Punjab while Onler was learning at Delhi University. They wedded in 2005. In 2013,she conceived her third child kid and has named him Prince Chungthanglen Kom.
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