Chungneijang Mary Kom Hmangte better known as Mary Kom is an Indian Olympic boxer from Manipur.She is the only woman to become World Amateur Boxing champion for a record six times, and the only woman boxer to have won a medal in each one of the seven 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 had also been ranked as No. 1 AIBA World Women’s Ranking Light Flyweight category.She became the first Indian woman boxer to get a Gold Medal in the Asian Games in 2014 at Incheon, South Korea and is the first Indian woman boxer to win gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chungneijang Mary Kom Hmangte better known as Mary Kom is an Indian Olympic boxer from Manipur.She is the only woman to become World Amateur Boxing champion for a record six times, and the only woman boxer to have won a medal in each one of the seven world championships. Nicknamed Magnificent Mary, she is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n