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Mary Kom

October 15, 2023

For the 2014 film about Mary Kom, see Mary Kom (film).

Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom OLY[2] (born 24 November 1982)[1] is an Indian olympic-style boxer, politician, and former Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha.[3][4][5] She 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 (male or female) to win eight World Championship medals.[6][7][8][9] Nicknamed Magnificent Mary, she was the only Indian female boxer to have qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she competed in the flyweight (51 kg) category and won a bronze medal.[10] She had also been ranked as the world's No. 1 female light-flyweight by the International Boxing Association (amateur) (AIBA).[11][12] She 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.[13] She is also the only boxer to become Asian Amateur Boxing Champion for a record six times.[14][15] Mary Kom won the 51kg gold in President's Cup in Indonesia.[16]

Mary Kom
Kom at the British High Commission in 2011
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
In office
25 April 2016 – 24 April 2022
Nominated byPranab Mukherjee
Succeeded byP. T. Usha
ConstituencyNominated (Sports)
Personal details
Born
Chungneijang Mary Kom

(1982-11-24) 24 November 1982 (age 40)[1]
Kagathei, Churachandpur district, Manipur, India
SpouseKarong Onkholer Koms
AwardsPadma Vibhushan (2020)
Padma Bhushan (2013)
Padma Shri (2006)
Boxing career
Statistics
Weight class
Weight(s)48 kg (106 lb) / 51 kg (112 lb)
Height1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)
Medal record
Women's amateur boxing
Representing  India
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games - - 1
World Championships 6 1 1
Asian Games 1 - 1
Commonwealth Games 1 - -
Asian Championships 5 2 -
Total 13 3 3
Olympic Games
2012 London Flyweight
World Championships
2002 Antalya Pinweight
2005 Podolsk Pinweight
2006 New Delhi Pinweight
2008 Ningbo City Pinweight
2010 Bridgetown Light flyweight
2018 New Delhi Light flyweight
2001 Scranton Light flyweight
2019 Ulan-Ude Flyweight
Asian Games
2014 Incheon Flyweight
2010 Guangzhou Flyweight
Asian Championships
2003 Hisar Pinweight
2005 Kaohsiung Pinweight
2010 Astana Pinweight
2012 Ulaanbaatar Flyweight
2017 Ho Chi Minh City Light flyweight
2008 Guwahati Pinweight
2021 Dubai Flyweight
Commonwealth Games
2018 Gold Coast Light flyweight
Asian Indoor Games
2009 Hanoi Pinweight

On 25 April 2016, the President of India nominated Kom as a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament.[17] In March 2017, the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India, appointed Mary Kom along with Akhil Kumar as national observers for boxing.[18]

After her sixth world title in 2018, the Government of Manipur has conferred on her the title "Meethoi Leima", loosely translated as great or exceptional lady in a felicitation ceremony held in Imphal on 11 December 2018. Mary Kom became the most successful boxer at world championships in 2019.[19] At the function, the then Chief Minister of Manipur also declared that the stretch of road leading to the National Games village in Imphal West district, where Kom currently resides, would be named as MC Mary Kom Road.[20][21] She was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award, in 2020.[22][23]

Early life Edit

Kom was born in Kagathei village, Moirang Lamkhai in the Churachandpur district of rural Manipur in India.[1][24] She came from a poor Kom family.[1] Her parents, Mangte Tonpa Kom and Mangte Akham Kom were tenant farmers who worked in jhum fields.[25] They named her Chungneijang. Kom grew up in humble surroundings, helping her parents with farm-related chores, going to school, and learning athletics initially and later boxing simultaneously. Kom's father was a keen wrestler in his younger days. She is the eldest of three children – she has a younger sister and a brother.[26] She hails from a Christian Baptist family.[27]

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. During this time, she took a good amount of interest in athletics, especially javelin and 400 meters running. It was at this juncture, Dingko Singh, a fellow Manipuri returned from the 1998 Bangkok Asian games with a gold medal. Kom recollects that this had inspired many youngsters in Manipur to try boxing, and she too thought of giving it a try.[28]

After completing class 8, Kom moved to Adimjati High School, Imphal, for her schooling for classes 9 and 10, but was unable to pass the matriculation exam. Not wishing to reappear for them, she quit her school and gave her examination from NIOS, Imphal, and graduated from Churachandpur College.[29]

Kom participated in sports in school, including volleyball, football, and athletics. It was the success of Dingko Singh that inspired her to switch from athletics to boxing in 2000. She started her training under her first coach K. Kosana Meitei in Imphal. When she was 15, she decided to leave her hometown to study at the Imphal Sports Academy.[30] In an interview with the BBC, Meitei remembered her as a dedicated hardworking girl with a strong will power, who picked up the basics of boxing quickly. Thereafter, she trained under the Manipur state boxing coach M. Narjit Singh at Khuman Lampak.[31] Kom kept her interest in boxing a secret from her father, himself an ex-wrestler, as he was concerned that boxing would hurt Kom's face and spoil her chances of marriage. However, he learned of it when Kom's photo appeared in a newspaper after she won the state boxing championship in 2000. After three years, her father began to support Kom's pursuits in boxing as he grew convinced of her love of boxing.[32][33]

Career Edit

After her marriage, Kom took a short hiatus from boxing. After giving birth to her first child, Kom started training once again.[24] She won a silver medal at the 2008 Asian Women's Boxing Championship in India[34] and a fourth successive gold medal at the 2008 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships in China,[35] followed by a gold medal at the 2009 Asian Indoor Games in Vietnam.[34][36]

In 2010, Kom won the gold medal at the Asian Women's Boxing Championship in Kazakhstan,[34] and at the 2010 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships in Barbados, her fifth consecutive gold at the championship. She competed in Barbados in the 48 kg weight category, after AIBA had stopped using the 46 kg class.[37] In the 2010 Asian Games, she competed in the 51 kg class and won a bronze medal.[38] In 2011, she won gold in the 48 kg class at the Asian Women's Cup in China.[39][40]

On 3 October 2010 she, along with Sanjay and Harshit Jain, had the honour of bearing the Queen's Baton in the opening ceremony run in the stadium for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.[41] She did not compete, however, as women's boxing was not included in the Commonwealth Games.

Kom, who had previously fought in the 46 and 48 kg categories, shifted to the 51 kg category after the world body decided to allow women's boxing in only three weight categories eliminating the lower weight classes.[42]

At the 2012 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championship, Kom was competing not just for the championship itself but also for a place at the 2012 London Olympics in London, the first time women's boxing had featured as an Olympic sport. She was defeated in the 51 kg quarter-finals by Nicola Adams of the UK. She was the only Indian woman to qualify for the Olympic boxing event, with Laishram Sarita Devi narrowly missing a place in the 60 kg class.[43]

Kom was accompanied to London by her mother.[44] Kom's coach Charles Atkinson could not join her at the Olympic Village as he didn't possess an International Boxing Association (AIBA) 3 Star Certification, which is mandatory for accreditation.[45] She had all her luggage and passport stolen on the way to the selection camp in Bangkok, Thailand for her first Asian Women's Boxing Championships.[46][47] The first Olympic round was held on 5 August 2012, with Kom defeating Karolina Michalczuk of Poland 19–14 in the third women's boxing match ever to be fought at the Olympics.[48][49] In the quarter-final, the following day, she defeated Maroua Rahali of Tunisia with a score of 15–6.[50] She faced Nicola Adams of UK in the semi-final on 8 August 2012 and lost the bout 6 points to 11.[51] However, she stood third in the competition and garnered an Olympic bronze medal.[52][53][54] In recognition, the Manipur Government awarded her Rs 50 lakhs and two acres of land in a cabinet meeting held on 9 August 2012.[55]

Though keen on representing India at the 2016 Rio Olympics, Kom was not able to qualify for the event.[56] Kom has said that the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be her last appearance at the Summer Games.[57]

In 2020 Summer Olympics she fought against the Rio Olympics bronze medalist Colombian boxer Ingrit Valencia. As the match ended, the commentator announced the winner on points by split decision. A brief momentarily pause was followed by "in red," another short pause, but by this time Mary Kom, in the blue corner, had put up her fist in celebration and did not follow the rest of the commentary that mentioned "Ingrit Valencia". "I had beaten this girl twice in the past. I couldn't believe that her hand was raised by the referee. I swear, it hadn't struck me that I lost, I was so sure," she said in an interview.[58]

On 1 October 2014, 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 (51 kg) summit clash.

 
Mary Kom during an interaction with the Prime Minister of India

On 8 November 2017, she received an unprecedented fifth gold medal (48 kg) at the Asian Boxing Confederation (ASBC) women's boxing championships held at Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam.[59]

The only major international event that she had not won a medal in was the Commonwealth Games, as her category Light flyweight was not included until the 2018 Commonwealth Games. There, Kom won the gold medal in the women's light flyweight 48 kg on 14 April 2018.[60]

On 24 November 2018, she became the first woman to win 6 World Championships, achieving this feat at the 10th AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships held in New Delhi, India.[61]

In October 2019, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) named Kom as a female representative of boxing's athlete ambassadors group for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.[62]

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. Kom won her first medal at the tournament in 2003 .[63]

In the Asian Boxing Olympic Qualifying rounds held in August 2021, Kom lost to China's Chang Yuan in a semi-final.[64]

Super Fight League Edit

Kom appeared on the final episode of the Super Fight League's mixed martial arts reality show – SFL Challengers. During this time Kom was in talks with owners Raj Kundra and Sanjay Dutt to work with the SFL in some manner other than being a fighter.[65]

On 24 September 2012, the Super Fight League announced that Kom will serve as the SFL's brand ambassador.[66][67]

Achievements Edit

International Titles[68]
Year Place Weight Competition Location
2001   48 AIBA Women's World Championships Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
2002   45 AIBA Women's World Championships Antalya, Turkey
2002   45 Witch Cup Pécs, Hungary
2003   46 Asian Women's Championships Hisar, India
2004   41 Women's World Cup Tønsberg, Norway
2005   46 Asian Women's Championships Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2005   46 AIBA Women's World Championships Podolsk, Russia
2006   46 AIBA Women's World Championships New Delhi, India
2006   46 Venus Women's Box Cup Vejle, Denmark
2008   46 AIBA Women's World Championships Ningbo, China
2008   46 Asian Women's Championships Guwahati, India
2009   46 Asian Indoor Games Hanoi, Vietnam
2010   48 AIBA Women's World Championships Bridgetown, Barbados
2010   46 Asian Women's Championships Astana, Kazakhstan
2010   51 Asian Games Guangzhou, China
2011   48 Asian Women's Cup Haikou, China
2012   41 Asian Women's Championships Ulan Bator, Mongolia
2012   51 Summer Olympics London, United Kingdom
2014   51 Asian Games Incheon, South Korea
2017   48 Asian Women's Championships Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2018   45–48 Commonwealth Games Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
2018   45–48 AIBA Women's World Championships New Delhi, India
2019   51 2019 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships Ulan-Ude, Russia
National
  • Gold – 1st Women Nat. Boxing Championship, Chennai 6–12.2.2001
  • The East Open Boxing Champ, Bengal 11–14 December 2001
  • 2nd Sr World Women Boxing Championship, New Delhi 26–30 December 2001
  • National Women Sort Meet, N. Delhi 26–30 December 2001
  • 32nd National Games, Hyderabad 2002
  • 3rd Sr World Women Boxing Champ, Aizawl 4–8.3.2003
  • 4th Sr WWBC, Kokrajar, Assam 24–28 February 2004
  • 5th Sr WWBC, Kerala 26–30 December 2004
  • 6th Sr WWBC, Jamshedpur 29 November-3.12.2005
  • 10th WNBC, Jamshedpur lost QF by 1–4 on 5 October 2009

Awards and recognitions Edit

 
Mary being awarded Padma Vibhushan, c. 2021

Mary Kom was a set a new standard in amateur boxing without ever competing in professional boxing. In 2015, Kom became the first amateur to surpass several professional athletes in India in earnings, endorsements and awards. She is the first amateur athlete to win the Padma Bhushan.

National awards
Other awards and recognition
For the bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics

Media and popular culture Edit

Her autobiography, Unbreakable, was co-authored by Dina Serto[86] and published by HarperCollins in late 2013.[87] An excerpt from this biography has been given as a prose lesson in Samacheer Kalvi English textbook for 11th standard.[citation needed]

Priyanka Chopra portrayed Kom in Mary Kom, a 2014 Hindi language biographical film about her life. The movie is directed by Omung Kumar and was released on 5 September 2014.[88]

The Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, a children's book which features short stories about female role models to children, includes an entry on Mary Kom.[89]

Kom also features in the 2016 documentary With This Ring,[90] which follows the experiences of India's women's boxing team across the course of six years from 2006 - 2012.[91]

Personal life Edit

Kom is married to the footballer Karung Onkholer (Onler).[92] Kom first met her husband in 2000 after her luggage was stolen while travelling by train to Bangalore. In New Delhi while on her way to the National Games in Punjab she met Onkholer who was studying law at Delhi University. Onkholer was the president of the North East students body and helped Kom. They became friends and thereafter began dating each other. After four years they were married in 2005.[93]

Together they have three sons, twins born in 2007, and another son born in 2013.[94][95] In 2018, Kom and her husband adopted a girl named Merilyn.[96]

Association with social causes Edit

Kom is an animal rights activist, and supporter of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India, starring in an ad to call for an end to the use of elephants in circuses. "Circuses are cruel places for animals where they are beaten and tortured. As a mother, I can imagine what animals go through when their children are taken away from them to forcefully perform in circuses. It's sad," Kom has been quoted in the media.[97]

Kom has also backed PETA India's humane education campaign, Compassionate Citizen. She 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. In an interview in the Times of India she was quoted as saying, "One of the best ways to knock out cruelty to animals is to teach compassion to young people. Animals need us in their corner. With violence seemingly all around us, it is more important than ever that we teach lessons of respect and kindness in the classroom."[98]

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For the 2014 film about Mary Kom see Mary Kom film Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom OLY 2 born 24 November 1982 1 is an Indian olympic style boxer politician and former Member of Parliament Rajya Sabha 3 4 5 She 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 male or female to win eight World Championship medals 6 7 8 9 Nicknamed Magnificent Mary she was the only Indian female boxer to have qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics where she competed in the flyweight 51 kg category and won a bronze medal 10 She had also been ranked as the world s No 1 female light flyweight by the International Boxing Association amateur AIBA 11 12 She 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 13 She is also the only boxer to become Asian Amateur Boxing Champion for a record six times 14 15 Mary Kom won the 51kg gold in President s Cup in Indonesia 16 Mary KomKom at the British High Commission in 2011Member of Parliament Rajya SabhaIn office 25 April 2016 24 April 2022Nominated byPranab MukherjeeSucceeded byP T UshaConstituencyNominated Sports Personal detailsBornChungneijang Mary Kom 1982 11 24 24 November 1982 age 40 1 Kagathei Churachandpur district Manipur IndiaSpouseKarong Onkholer KomsAwardsPadma Vibhushan 2020 Padma Bhushan 2013 Padma Shri 2006 Boxing careerStatisticsWeight classAtomweight FlyweightWeight s 48 kg 106 lb 51 kg 112 lb Height1 58 m 5 ft 2 in Medal record Women s amateur boxingRepresenting IndiaEvent 1st 2nd 3rdOlympic Games 1World Championships 6 1 1Asian Games 1 1Commonwealth Games 1 Asian Championships 5 2 Total 13 3 3Olympic Games2012 London FlyweightWorld Championships2002 Antalya Pinweight2005 Podolsk Pinweight2006 New Delhi Pinweight2008 Ningbo City Pinweight2010 Bridgetown Light flyweight2018 New Delhi Light flyweight2001 Scranton Light flyweight2019 Ulan Ude FlyweightAsian Games2014 Incheon Flyweight2010 Guangzhou FlyweightAsian Championships2003 Hisar Pinweight2005 Kaohsiung Pinweight2010 Astana Pinweight2012 Ulaanbaatar Flyweight2017 Ho Chi Minh City Light flyweight2008 Guwahati Pinweight2021 Dubai FlyweightCommonwealth Games2018 Gold Coast Light flyweightAsian Indoor Games2009 Hanoi PinweightOn 25 April 2016 the President of India nominated Kom as a member of the Rajya Sabha the upper house of the Indian parliament 17 In March 2017 the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports Government of India appointed Mary Kom along with Akhil Kumar as national observers for boxing 18 After her sixth world title in 2018 the Government of Manipur has conferred on her the title Meethoi Leima loosely translated as great or exceptional lady in a felicitation ceremony held in Imphal on 11 December 2018 Mary Kom became the most successful boxer at world championships in 2019 19 At the function the then Chief Minister of Manipur also declared that the stretch of road leading to the National Games village in Imphal West district where Kom currently resides would be named as MC Mary Kom Road 20 21 She was awarded the Padma Vibhushan India s second highest civilian award in 2020 22 23 Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Super Fight League 4 Achievements 5 Awards and recognitions 6 Media and popular culture 7 Personal life 8 Association with social causes 9 References 10 External linksEarly life EditKom was born in Kagathei village Moirang Lamkhai in the Churachandpur district of rural Manipur in India 1 24 She came from a poor Kom family 1 Her parents Mangte Tonpa Kom and Mangte Akham Kom were tenant farmers who worked in jhum fields 25 They named her Chungneijang Kom grew up in humble surroundings helping her parents with farm related chores going to school and learning athletics initially and later boxing simultaneously Kom s father was a keen wrestler in his younger days She is the eldest of three children she has a younger sister and a brother 26 She hails from a Christian Baptist family 27 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 During this time she took a good amount of interest in athletics especially javelin and 400 meters running It was at this juncture Dingko Singh a fellow Manipuri returned from the 1998 Bangkok Asian games with a gold medal Kom recollects that this had inspired many youngsters in Manipur to try boxing and she too thought of giving it a try 28 After completing class 8 Kom moved to Adimjati High School Imphal for her schooling for classes 9 and 10 but was unable to pass the matriculation exam Not wishing to reappear for them she quit her school and gave her examination from NIOS Imphal and graduated from Churachandpur College 29 Kom participated in sports in school including volleyball football and athletics It was the success of Dingko Singh that inspired her to switch from athletics to boxing in 2000 She started her training under her first coach K Kosana Meitei in Imphal When she was 15 she decided to leave her hometown to study at the Imphal Sports Academy 30 In an interview with the BBC Meitei remembered her as a dedicated hardworking girl with a strong will power who picked up the basics of boxing quickly Thereafter she trained under the Manipur state boxing coach M Narjit Singh at Khuman Lampak 31 Kom kept her interest in boxing a secret from her father himself an ex wrestler as he was concerned that boxing would hurt Kom s face and spoil her chances of marriage However he learned of it when Kom s photo appeared in a newspaper after she won the state boxing championship in 2000 After three years her father began to support Kom s pursuits in boxing as he grew convinced of her love of boxing 32 33 Career EditAfter her marriage Kom took a short hiatus from boxing After giving birth to her first child Kom started training once again 24 She won a silver medal at the 2008 Asian Women s Boxing Championship in India 34 and a fourth successive gold medal at the 2008 AIBA Women s World Boxing Championships in China 35 followed by a gold medal at the 2009 Asian Indoor Games in Vietnam 34 36 In 2010 Kom won the gold medal at the Asian Women s Boxing Championship in Kazakhstan 34 and at the 2010 AIBA Women s World Boxing Championships in Barbados her fifth consecutive gold at the championship She competed in Barbados in the 48 kg weight category after AIBA had stopped using the 46 kg class 37 In the 2010 Asian Games she competed in the 51 kg class and won a bronze medal 38 In 2011 she won gold in the 48 kg class at the Asian Women s Cup in China 39 40 On 3 October 2010 she along with Sanjay and Harshit Jain had the honour of bearing the Queen s Baton in the opening ceremony run in the stadium for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi 41 She did not compete however as women s boxing was not included in the Commonwealth Games Kom who had previously fought in the 46 and 48 kg categories shifted to the 51 kg category after the world body decided to allow women s boxing in only three weight categories eliminating the lower weight classes 42 At the 2012 AIBA Women s World Boxing Championship Kom was competing not just for the championship itself but also for a place at the 2012 London Olympics in London the first time women s boxing had featured as an Olympic sport She was defeated in the 51 kg quarter finals by Nicola Adams of the UK She was the only Indian woman to qualify for the Olympic boxing event with Laishram Sarita Devi narrowly missing a place in the 60 kg class 43 Kom was accompanied to London by her mother 44 Kom s coach Charles Atkinson could not join her at the Olympic Village as he didn t possess an International Boxing Association AIBA 3 Star Certification which is mandatory for accreditation 45 She had all her luggage and passport stolen on the way to the selection camp in Bangkok Thailand for her first Asian Women s Boxing Championships 46 47 The first Olympic round was held on 5 August 2012 with Kom defeating Karolina Michalczuk of Poland 19 14 in the third women s boxing match ever to be fought at the Olympics 48 49 In the quarter final the following day she defeated Maroua Rahali of Tunisia with a score of 15 6 50 She faced Nicola Adams of UK in the semi final on 8 August 2012 and lost the bout 6 points to 11 51 However she stood third in the competition and garnered an Olympic bronze medal 52 53 54 In recognition the Manipur Government awarded her Rs 50 lakhs and two acres of land in a cabinet meeting held on 9 August 2012 55 Though keen on representing India at the 2016 Rio Olympics Kom was not able to qualify for the event 56 Kom has said that the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be her last appearance at the Summer Games 57 In 2020 Summer Olympics she fought against the Rio Olympics bronze medalist Colombian boxer Ingrit Valencia As the match ended the commentator announced the winner on points by split decision A brief momentarily pause was followed by in red another short pause but by this time Mary Kom in the blue corner had put up her fist in celebration and did not follow the rest of the commentary that mentioned Ingrit Valencia I had beaten this girl twice in the past I couldn t believe that her hand was raised by the referee I swear it hadn t struck me that I lost I was so sure she said in an interview 58 On 1 October 2014 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 51 kg summit clash nbsp Mary Kom during an interaction with the Prime Minister of IndiaOn 8 November 2017 she received an unprecedented fifth gold medal 48 kg at the Asian Boxing Confederation ASBC women s boxing championships held at Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam 59 The only major international event that she had not won a medal in was the Commonwealth Games as her category Light flyweight was not included until the 2018 Commonwealth Games There Kom won the gold medal in the women s light flyweight 48 kg on 14 April 2018 60 On 24 November 2018 she became the first woman to win 6 World Championships achieving this feat at the 10th AIBA Women s World Boxing Championships held in New Delhi India 61 In October 2019 the International Olympic Committee IOC named Kom as a female representative of boxing s athlete ambassadors group for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo 62 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 Kom won her first medal at the tournament in 2003 63 In the Asian Boxing Olympic Qualifying rounds held in August 2021 Kom lost to China s Chang Yuan in a semi final 64 Super Fight League EditKom appeared on the final episode of the Super Fight League s mixed martial arts reality show SFL Challengers During this time Kom was in talks with owners Raj Kundra and Sanjay Dutt to work with the SFL in some manner other than being a fighter 65 On 24 September 2012 the Super Fight League announced that Kom will serve as the SFL s brand ambassador 66 67 Achievements EditInternational Titles 68 Year Place Weight Competition Location2001 nbsp 48 AIBA Women s World Championships Scranton Pennsylvania USA2002 nbsp 45 AIBA Women s World Championships Antalya Turkey2002 nbsp 45 Witch Cup Pecs Hungary2003 nbsp 46 Asian Women s Championships Hisar India2004 nbsp 41 Women s World Cup Tonsberg Norway2005 nbsp 46 Asian Women s Championships Kaohsiung Taiwan2005 nbsp 46 AIBA Women s World Championships Podolsk Russia2006 nbsp 46 AIBA Women s World Championships New Delhi India2006 nbsp 46 Venus Women s Box Cup Vejle Denmark2008 nbsp 46 AIBA Women s World Championships Ningbo China2008 nbsp 46 Asian Women s Championships Guwahati India2009 nbsp 46 Asian Indoor Games Hanoi Vietnam2010 nbsp 48 AIBA Women s World Championships Bridgetown Barbados2010 nbsp 46 Asian Women s Championships Astana Kazakhstan2010 nbsp 51 Asian Games Guangzhou China2011 nbsp 48 Asian Women s Cup Haikou China2012 nbsp 41 Asian Women s Championships Ulan Bator Mongolia2012 nbsp 51 Summer Olympics London United Kingdom2014 nbsp 51 Asian Games Incheon South Korea2017 nbsp 48 Asian Women s Championships Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam2018 nbsp 45 48 Commonwealth Games Gold Coast Queensland Australia2018 nbsp 45 48 AIBA Women s World Championships New Delhi India2019 nbsp 51 2019 AIBA Women s World Boxing Championships Ulan Ude RussiaNationalGold 1st Women Nat Boxing Championship Chennai 6 12 2 2001 The East Open Boxing Champ Bengal 11 14 December 2001 2nd Sr World Women Boxing Championship New Delhi 26 30 December 2001 National Women Sort Meet N Delhi 26 30 December 2001 32nd National Games Hyderabad 2002 3rd Sr World Women Boxing Champ Aizawl 4 8 3 2003 4th Sr WWBC Kokrajar Assam 24 28 February 2004 5th Sr WWBC Kerala 26 30 December 2004 6th Sr WWBC Jamshedpur 29 November 3 12 2005 10th WNBC Jamshedpur lost QF by 1 4 on 5 October 2009Awards and recognitions Edit nbsp Mary being awarded Padma Vibhushan c 2021Mary Kom was a set a new standard in amateur boxing without ever competing in professional boxing In 2015 Kom became the first amateur to surpass several professional athletes in India in earnings endorsements and awards She is the first amateur athlete to win the Padma Bhushan National awardsPadma Vibhushan Sports 2020 23 Padma Bhushan Sports 2013 69 Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna award 2009 70 71 Padma Shri Sports 2006 69 Arjuna Award Boxing 2003Other awards and recognitionThe International Boxing Association AIBA awarded Mary Kom with the first AIBA Legends awards for promising boxing career 72 The International Boxing Association AIBA announced Mary Kom as the brand ambassador for 2016 AIBA Women s World Boxing Championships 73 People of the Year Limca Book of Records 2007 CNN IBN amp Reliance Industries Real Heroes Award 14 4 2008 Mon Pepsi MTV Youth Icon 2008 Magnificent Mary AIBA 2008 International Boxing Association s Ambassador for Women s Boxing 2009 TSE 30 July 2009 Thur 74 75 Sportswoman of the year 2010 Sahara Sports Award 76 Olympians for Life by WOA 77 Honorary Doctorate degree D Litt from North Eastern Hill University on 29 March 2016 and DPhil from Kaziranga University on 14 January 2019 78 79 For the bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics 5 million US 63 000 cash award and two acres of land from the Manipur Government 80 2 5 million US 31 000 cash award from the Rajasthan Government 81 2 million US 25 000 cash award from the Assam Government 82 1 million US 13 000 cash award from the Arunachal Pradesh Government 83 1 million US 13 000 cash award from the Ministry of Tribal Affairs India 84 4 million US 50 000 cash award from the North Eastern Council 85 Meethoileima title Manipur Govt 2018 Media and popular culture EditHer autobiography Unbreakable was co authored by Dina Serto 86 and published by HarperCollins in late 2013 87 An excerpt from this biography has been given as a prose lesson in Samacheer Kalvi English textbook for 11th standard citation needed Priyanka Chopra portrayed Kom in Mary Kom a 2014 Hindi language biographical film about her life The movie is directed by Omung Kumar and was released on 5 September 2014 88 The Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls a children s book which features short stories about female role models to children includes an entry on Mary Kom 89 Kom also features in the 2016 documentary With This Ring 90 which follows the experiences of India s women s boxing team across the course of six years from 2006 2012 91 Personal life EditKom is married to the footballer Karung Onkholer Onler 92 Kom first met her husband in 2000 after her luggage was stolen while travelling by train to Bangalore In New Delhi while on her way to the National Games in Punjab she met Onkholer who was studying law at Delhi University Onkholer was the president of the North East students body and helped Kom They became friends and thereafter began dating each other After four years they were married in 2005 93 Together they have three sons twins born in 2007 and another son born in 2013 94 95 In 2018 Kom and her husband adopted a girl named Merilyn 96 Association with social causes EditKom is an animal rights activist and supporter of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals PETA India starring in an ad to call for an end to the use of elephants in circuses Circuses are cruel places for animals where they are beaten and tortured As a mother I can imagine what animals go through when their children are taken away from them to forcefully perform in circuses It s sad Kom has been quoted in the media 97 Kom has also backed PETA India s humane education campaign Compassionate Citizen She has written a letter to the education ministers of states and union territories across India requesting that the 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