Mary Kom has been named as one of the eight ambassadors for the upcoming World Championships by the International Boxing Association (AIBA). An elated Mary Kom (51 kg), who has won five World Championship gold medals. She said that “It’s a great honour for me as an Indian. This title means that I will be representing international boxing and this is an honour which is not given to everybody,”
The AIBA-appointed ambassadors for the World Championship also include Nicola Adams of Great Britain, Team USA’s light flyweight Marlen Esparza, Adriana Arauja from host country of this year’s Olympic Games Brazil, Bulgaria’s Stanimira Petrova and Morocco’s Khadija Mardi.
Mary Kom
- Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom (born 1 March 1983[1]), known simply as Mary Kom
- She is a boxer from the Sino-Tibetan speaking Kom tribe in Manipur, representing India.
- She is a five-time World Amateur Boxing champion, and the only woman boxer to have won a medal in each one of the six world championships.
- Nicknamed “Magnificent Mary”, she is the only Indian woman boxer to have qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics, competing in the flyweight (51 kg) category and winning the bronze medal.
- She has also been ranked as No. 4 AIBA World Women’s Ranking Flyweight category.
- She became the first Indian woman boxer to get a Gold Medal in the Asian Games in 2014 in Incheon, South Korea.
