Mary Kom

Mary Kom, born in 1982 in Manipur, is an Indian Olympic boxer, politician and former Member of the Rajya Sabha. Nicknamed Magnificent Mary, she is the only woman to win the World Amateur Boxing Championship six times, the only female boxer to have won a medal in each of the first seven World Championships, and the only boxer of either sex to win eight World Championship medals. She qualified as the only Indian woman boxer for the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she fought at flyweight (51 kg) and won a bronze medal. She won the Asian Games gold medal in 2014 at Incheon and the Commonwealth Games gold in 2018, and she was ranked the world number one female light-flyweight by the amateur federation. She was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honour, in 2020.