5 Indian female athletes who can clinch gold at the Asian Games

#4 Mary Kom

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Kom :

Can she create the magic again?

When she stood proudly on the victors podium, after pummeling Kristina O Hara of Northern Ireland to clinch her debut gold medal in the Women's Light Flyweight category at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games 2018, former five-time world champion and London Olympics 2012 bronze medalist M C Mary Kom proved the maxim : Age is just a number.

For a mother of three children, who is also a sitting Rajya Sabha MP, making a return to the boxing ring wasn't a bed of roses. Yet, Mary Kom, who most critics had written off after her failure to make the cut for Rio Olympics, gave it back in style, by winning consecutive gold medals at the 2017 Asian Championships, the India Open Championships as well as the Gold Coast CWG 2018.

In an interview to the press, the Asian Games gold medalist has refused to call it quits, and continues to aim for an elusive Olympic gold at Tokyo 2020. Though she is yet to take her call, if she makes it to the Asiad, Mary Kom is well capable of springing up a surprise any given day, which could work wonders for her upcoming challenge at the AIBA World Women's Boxing Championships, to be held after the Asiad.