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India’s Magnificent Mary in bid for more boxing gold

She is a five-time world champion, mother of three and member of parliament, but Indian boxer Mary Kom (34) believes that there is plenty more glory in the ring to come.

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20.12.2017 | 12:55

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Mary Kom gets gold at the Asian Games

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Boxer Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom or Mary Kom, as she is popularly known, has become the first Indian woman boxer to win a gold at the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea. Two years ago during the London Olympics, she spoke to Women Talk Online about her dreams and the trials she went through to achieve them.

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01.10.2014 | 13:01

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Mary Kom: at the London Olympics

When in 2000 at Sydney, weightlifter Karnam Malleswari became India’s first woman Olympic medalist, it was indeed a historic moment. Two decades later, several Indian women athletes are going to London with a dream of shattering Malleswari’s bronze effort.  Boxer Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom or Mary Kom, as she is popularly known, is the brightest of them all.

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19.07.2012 | 11:44

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