Local NEWS: Indian boxer M C Mary Kom was honoured the 'Legends
Award' from the International Boxing Association (AIBA) on their 70th
anniversary on 20 December.An Olympic bronze-medallist and a five-time world
champion, Mary Kom is also Rajya Sabha MP now.
About Her:
Chungneijang Mery Kom Hmangte (born 1 March 1983), better known as Mary Kom, is an Olympic Indian boxer hailing from the Kom-Kuki tribe in Manipur. 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. On 26 April 2016, she was nominated by the President of India as a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament,India.
Picture by Onler Karong
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