MAGNIFICENT MARY Kom is a leading female boxer of India.

                     Mary Kom is a leading female boxer of India. She is one of the pioneers of women's boxing in India, she has received a huge success. Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom was born on 1 March 1983 in a small village of Kangathei in the northwest of the state of Manipur. As a child, Mary, along with her two younger sisters and a brother, worked in paddy fields, did the house works, and went to school. She was not very good at studies, but she could run fast, she could also walk a long distance. And above all she can punch hard.


                  In 1998, Dingko Singh, a boxer of Mary's state, came back with a gold medal from Asian Games in Bangkok. His warm welcome and grand felicitations in the state of Manipur impressed the teenager athlete Mary. As a result She firmly decided to become a boxer.

                        She rushed at the Sports Authority of India (SAI) Center in Imphal to meet Narjit Singh, who coached male boxers. Initially he denied his train When he came out of the center at midnight, weeping This type of eagerness and dedication of Mary towards the game changed Narjit Singh's mind He agreed to train her Then she never looked back, and toiled hard to get several national and international awards.

                      Her career as a boxer started in the year 2000 with a win in the Manipur State Women's Boxing. S A ). championship Till then she never informed her parents 1511 about her training as a boxer, her father saw her photograph in the local newspaper when she won the state championship. He was seriously scolded and instructed her to discontinue her boxing. Because he believed using the that it would have be difficult for him With great difficulty, she managed to convince her father to continue her game.


                     She explained the amateur and professional boxing. She told him the rules and regulations in because amateur boxing, and if there is an injury, therefore stops the play By then her family gave her full support to go ahead in the career. rant in the For her it was a constant battle to overcome the prejudice and = yed for the * challenges out of the ring as much as inside it against her opponents. She openly accepted that when she started, she had no encouragement and no support. It was very hard because she came from a poor family, mpions of edshahad to face hardships for the first 4 - 5years.


                     She called her Oup is the right hit or good shoes and she used to travel on distances by bus or train The prime reason, for Mary, to take up boxing as a career, was to lead her farming - dependent family towards a better livelihood. The other strong reason was to prove those people wrong who made very discouraging remarks on her Boxing was not considered honorable for women and nobody believed that c. 1. 1A Mary may be a boxing champion Her neighbors and relatives made her But | 1 She was firm that she could not stop people from talking to her Gradually her hard work brought her brilliant success at the national level and the international level as 3 well.


                           She is the world champion, not once She also secured bronze medals in Asian Games (2010, Guangzhow - China) and Olympics (2012, London - United Kingdom); and a gold medal in Asian Games (2014, Incheon - South Korea). C. 1. 2I In recognition her huge success, The Government of India conferred on her Arjuna Award (2003), Padma t Shree (2006), Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award (2009), and Padma Bhushan (2013).