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India's Mary Kom wins boxing Gold in Asian Games

| | Oct 01, 2014, at 05:34 pm
Incheon, Oct 1 (IBNS) India's Mary Kom on Wednesday won a Gold in boxing in the Asian Games here. It is India's seventh Gold in the ongoing tournament.
Mary Kom beat Kazakhstan's Zhaina Shekerbekova to lift the gold in the flyweight final. This is the golden Indian girl and Olympian's best finish at the Asian Games.

 

Mary Kom, on whom now a film has been made with Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra playing her life and struggles in reel life, 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.

 

"Magnificent Mary", as she is called in India, 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.  

 

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