Mary Kom

Mary Kom, born on March first, nineteen eighty-two, is a distinguished Indian Olympic boxer and politician, renowned for her remarkable achievements in the sport of boxing. She has made history as the only woman to win the World Amateur Boxing Championship six times and is the only female boxer to have earned a medal in each of the first seven World Championships. Her unparalleled success includes being the only boxer, regardless of gender, to secure eight World Championship medals.

Affectionately known as Magnificent Mary, she represented India as the sole female boxer at the 2012 Summer Olympics, competing in the flyweight category and clinching a bronze medal. Her prowess in the ring has earned her the title of the world's No. 1 female light-flyweight by the International Boxing Association (AIBA). In 2014, she became the first Indian female boxer to win a gold medal at the Asian Games held in Incheon, South Korea, and she continued her winning streak by securing gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Mary Kom's accolades extend to being the only boxer to achieve the title of Asian Amateur Boxing Champion six times. In addition to her numerous titles, she won the fifty-one kilogram gold medal at the President's Cup in Indonesia. Following her sixth world title in 2018, the Government of Manipur honored her with the title 'Meethoi Leima,' which translates to great or exceptional lady, during a ceremony in Imphal.

In 2019, she was recognized as the most successful boxer at world championships, and the Chief Minister of Manipur announced that a road leading to the National Games village in Imphal West district would be named MC Mary Kom Road in her honor. Her contributions to sports were further acknowledged when she was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award, in the year twenty twenty.