Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom was born on 24 November 1982 and is an Indian amateur boxer, politician, and former Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha.
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32 Facts About Chungneijang Mary Kom
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Chungneijang Mary Kom is the only woman 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 to win eight World Championship medals.
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Chungneijang Mary Kom had been ranked as the world's No 1 female light-flyweight by the International Boxing Association.
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Chungneijang Mary Kom 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.
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Chungneijang Mary Kom is the only boxer to become Asian Amateur Boxing Champion for a record six times.
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Mary Kom became the most successful boxer at world championships in 2019.
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Chungneijang Mary Kom was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award, in 2020.
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Chungneijang Mary Kom grew up in humble surroundings, helping her parents with farm related chores, going to school and learning athletics initially and later boxing simultaneously.
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Chungneijang Mary Kom's father was a keen wrestler in his younger days.
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Chungneijang Mary Kom is the eldest of three children – she has a younger sister and brother.
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Chungneijang Mary Kom studied at the Loktak Christian Model High School at Moirang up to her sixth standard and thereafter attended St Xavier Catholic School, Moirang, up to class 8.
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In school, Chungneijang Mary Kom participated in sports, including volleyball, football, and athletics.
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Chungneijang Mary Kom started her training under her first coach K Kosana Meitei in Imphal.
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Chungneijang Mary Kom kept her interest in boxing a secret from her father, himself an ex-wrestler, as he was concerned that boxing would hurt Chungneijang Mary Kom's face and spoil her chances of marriage.
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However, he learned of it when Chungneijang Mary Kom's photo appeared in a newspaper after she won the state boxing championship in 2000.
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In 2010, Chungneijang Mary 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.
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Chungneijang Mary Kom did not compete as women's boxing was not included in the Commonwealth Games.
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At the 2012 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championship, Chungneijang Mary Kom was competing not just for the championship itself but for a place at the 2012 London Olympics in London, the first time women's boxing had featured as an Olympic sport.
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Chungneijang Mary Kom faced Nicola Adams of UK in the semi-final on 8 August 2012 and lost the bout 6 points to 11.
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On 1 October 2014, Chungneijang Mary Kom won her first gold medal in the boxing at the 2014 Asian Games, held in Incheon, South Korea, by beating Kazakhstan's Zhaina Shekerbekova in the flyweight summit clash.
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In May 2021, Mary Kom won her 7th medal at the Asian Championships but lost the women's 51kg final on Sunday to Nazym Kazaibay.
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Chungneijang Mary Kom appeared on the final episode of the Super Fight League's mixed martial arts reality show – SFL Challengers.
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Mary Kom set a new standard in amateur boxing without ever competing in professional boxing.
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In 2015, Chungneijang Mary Kom became the first amateur to surpass several professional athletes in India in earnings, endorsements and awards.
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Chungneijang Mary Kom is the first amateur athlete to win the Padma Bhushan.
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Chungneijang Mary Kom first met her husband in 2000 after her luggage was stolen while travelling by train to Bangalore.
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Chungneijang Mary Kom has backed PETA India's humane education campaign, Compassionate Citizen.
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Chungneijang Mary Kom has written a letter to the education ministers of states and union territories across India requesting that the programme be incorporated into official school curriculums.
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