Mary Kom the Boxing queen of India

“Magnificent Mary” was born to fight.Never having boxed before, she laced up for the first time in 2000. By 2001, she was a national champion. Throughout her decade-long career, she has collected numerous world titles, earned several national recognition awards, given birth to two children and inspired thousands to pursue their dreams. Today, M.C. Mary Kom’s magnificence extends far beyond the boxing ring. Mangte Chungneijang Mery kom also known as MC Mary Kom or Mary Kom is a female boxer from Manipur, India Mary Kom, is five times World Boxing Champion, successively.

She came back from a two-year sabbatical to clinch her fourth successive World Amateur boxing gold in 2008, a feat that prompted the AIBA to describe her as 'Magnificent Mary'. She was earlier an athlete and switched to boxing after the success of fellow Manipur boxer Dingko Singh.
Mary Kom is the only boxer in the world to have won a medal in each one of the six World Championships. She is a recipient of the Arjuna Award, the Padma Shri Award, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award and a special award from AIBA.
A mother of twin sons, a caring wife, her achievements are a great inspiration.

















Achievements:

International 

  

• Bronze Medal in Women Boxing at London Olympics 2012

• Ist Asian Women Boxing Championship (AWBC), Bangkok 2001
• 2nd AWBC, Hissar, Haryana 2003
• 3rd AWBC, Kaohsing City, Taiwan 2005
• Silver medal - 2001 Women's World Amateur Boxing Championships, Pennsylvania, USA.
• Gold medal - 2002 Women's World Amateur Boxing Championships, Antalya, Turkey.
• Gold medal - 2005 Women's World Amateur Boxing Championships, Podolsk, Russia.
• Gold medal - 2006 World Women's Boxing Championship, New Delhi, India.
• Ist WWB Tournament, Norway 2004
• Venus Cup International Women Box Tourn, Vejla (Denmark ) 2006
• Gold medal - 2008 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championship, Ningbo, China.
• Gold medal - Asian Women's Boxing Championship, Astana, Kazakhstan.
• Bronze medal - 2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou, China[8]
• Gold medal - 2010 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championship, Barbados.
• Arjuna Award (Boxing) 2004
• Padma Shree (Sports) 2006
• Contender for Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award 2007
• People of the Year- Limca Book of Records 2007
• CNN-IBN ‘Real Heroes’ Award 2008
• ‘Magnificent Mary’, AIBA 2008
• Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna 29.8.2009 Sat, New Delhi
• Int’l Boxing Association’s Ambassador for Women’s Boxing 2009
• Sportswoman of the year 2010, Sahara Sports Award 2010

National
• Gold - Ist Women Nat. Boxing Championship, Chennai 2001
• The East Open Boxing Champ, Bengal 2001
• 2nd Sr World Women Boxing Championship, New Delhi 2001
• National Women Sort Meet, N. Delhi 2001
• 32nd National Games, Hyderabad 2002
• 3rd Sr World Women Boxing Champ, Aizawl 2003
• 4th Sr WWBC, Kokrajar, Assam 2004
• 5th Sr WWBC, Kerala 2004
• 6th Sr WWBC, Jamshedpur 2005
• 10th WNBC, Jamshedpur lost QF by 2009