Mery Kom

Chungneijang Mery Kom Hmangte[3] (born 24 November 1982[1]), better known as Mary Kom,[4] is
an Olympic Indian boxer hailing from the Kom tribe in Manipur. 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.[5] 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.[6] She
has also been ranked as No. 4 AIBA World Women's Ranking Flyweight category. [7] She became the first Indian
woman boxer to get a Gold Medal in the Asian Games in 2014 in Incheon, South Korea.[8]
On 26 April 2016, Kom was nominated by the President of India as a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper
house of the Indian Parliament.[9] 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