MC Mary Kom
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India’s most successful female boxer, MC Mary Kom has been one of the top-ranked boxers in the world in her category, the flyweight. She has five World Amateur Boxing titles, and in 2012 became the only female Indian boxer to qualify for that year's Olympic Games in London.
Mary would end up winning bronze at the Olympics, and is now trying out for the 2016 edition. Following her London victory, she also became the first Indian female boxer to win gold at the Asian Games, winning in Incheon in 2014.
She began her serious boxing training in earnest at the age of 17, and her career quickly began to pick up even more momentum. After picking up gold at the 2009 Indoor Asian Games, she picked up successive medals at the Asian Games in 2010 and 2014, with bronze in Guangzhou and gold in Incheon.
Mary was conferred the Arjuna Award early on in her career, and in 2013, the year after her Olympic bronze, was given India’s third-highest civilian honour, the Padma Bhushan.
She is currently awaiting trials for the 2016 Rio Olympics, after narrowly missing out at the Asian and Oceanic Boxing Olympic qualifiers in China earlier this month.
