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Mary Kom Profile, Achievements, Awards, Medals, Records, Age, Sports career
Indian Olympic Boxer M C Mary Kom's Early Life, schooling, caste, Achievements, Sports career and Awards
Mary Kom is an Indian Olympic Boxer,five-time world champion and Olympic Bronze-medallist.
Mary Kom was born on 24 November 1982, Chungneijang. Mary Kom is an Olympic Indian boxer.
Mary Kom native of the Kom tribe in Manipur. She Studied up to class VI Standard, she Quit studies before completing schooling.
Mary Kom's Early Life
Mary Kom as a student displayed a keen interest in athletics and used to participate in sports like football but she never took part in boxing as the student.
Mary Kom takes up boxing by Inspired from boxer Dingo Singh who won a Gold at the Asian Games.
Mary Kom's Achievements and Awards
Mary Kom is a five-time World Amateur Boxing champion.
Mery Kom is the only woman boxer to have won a medal in each one of the six world championships.
Mary Kom 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.
Mary Kom became the first Indian woman boxer to get a Gold Medal in the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea in 2014.
Mary Kom has also been ranked as No. 4 AIBA World Women's Ranking Flyweight category.
