~ T. Zamlunmang Zou
Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom also known as MC Mary Kom or Mary Kom, a female boxer from Manipur, India and a mother of two, clinch her fifth successive Women’s World Boxing Championship this year at Barbados, beating Romania’s Steluta Duta convincingly to take the light flyweight title.
Kom was overcome with emotion after her win of her fifth successive world title. “I would like to thank my husband and my sponsor for both giving me the will power and encouraging me. I’m really really happy and I thank God,” she said. Kom won her first title in 2001, at the age of 18 and has now taken gold medals at the past four AIBA Women’s World Championships.
International Boxing Association (AIBA) awarded her the coveted tile ‘Magnificent Mary’ at AIBA World Championships Ningbo City 2008.