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Mary Kom

Assam

Indian amateur boxer, politician, and incumbent Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha.

Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom (born 24 November 1982)[1] is an Indian amateur boxer, politician, and incumbent Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha.[2][3][4] She is the only female 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.[5][6][7][8] Nicknamed Magnificent Mary, she is the only Indian female boxer to have qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics, competing in the flyweight (51 kg) category and winning a bronze medal.[9] She had also been ranked as the world's No. 1 female light-flyweight by the International Boxing Association (amateur) (AIBA).[10][11] She became the first Indian female boxer to win a gold medal in the Asian Games in 2014 at Incheon, South Korea and is the first Indian female boxer to win gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.[12] She is also the only boxer to become Asian Amateur Boxing Champion for a record six times.[13][14] Mary Kom won the 51kg gold in President's Cup in Indonesia.

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