4. Mary Kom’s Boxing Achievements:
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Boxer Mary Kom has made the nation proud on several occasions in her illustrious career. She took the boxing world by storm, taking giant strides in her career with her stupendous performances one after the other. She is the only woman to win the World Amateur Boxing Championship six times and the only female boxer to have won a medal in each one of the first seven World Championships.
She added another feather in the cap when she became the only boxer (male or female) to win eight World Championship medals. Her continuous hard work also saw her being ranked as the world’s No. 1 female light-flyweight by the International Boxing Association (amateur) (AIBA). She is also the only boxer to become Asian Amateur Boxing Champion a record six times. Kom’s achievements have made the nation proud on numerous occasions and made our tricolour fly high on the global stage.
