When women’s boxing appeared at the Olympics Games, in over a hundred years of the games’ existence, very little arguments were made against the possibility of a medal by a certain Indian hope in the flyweight category. For the women’s event entered the competition for the first time after the mens’ category has already been at the games for more than a century, turns out the Magnificent Mary needed just one attempt.
The Indian boxer had the skills to turn the eyes of the Indian sports watcher from the other much popular Olympics events in the country to the squared arena. In the first game, Chungneijang Mary Kom Hmangte defeated Poland boxer Karolina Michalczuk with a score of 19 to 14.
Mary Kom has now won a record six Gold medals in the Women’s World Boxing Championship. Besides a gold in the Asian Games, Mary has five gold medals in the Asian Women’s Boxing Championships. In the quarter-final games that followed, Mary Kom defeated Maroua Rahali of Tunisia with the scoreboard reading 15-6. She, however lost in the semi-finals to Britain’s Nicola Adams, who went on to become the first women gold medallist at Boxing events in Olympics. Kom ended up winning an Olympic Bronze medal.
But, there is so much more to the legendary boxer than the Olympic glory. On her 36th birthday, we list a few amazing facts about Magnificent Mary.
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