Sun Rise In Life

After 9 years and 10 months of Sachin’s birth, another sports legend has born as baby girl Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom on 1st March, 1983. The World better knows her as MARY KOM now. Mary Kom’s birth itself was like a Dark Night of life. Sachin had never saw darkness of Night in his life like Mary Kom. Mary Kom was born in Kangathei, in Churachandpur district of Manipur, the north-east of India, the poorest of the poor family. Her parents, MangteTonpa Kom and Mangte Akham Kom, worked in jhum fields. She belongs to the tribal community of the north-eastern state of Manipur, India a state that barely caught a whiff of India’s economic boom. Her family was a poor landless peasant; her father has 4 children including her. He was managing his earning hardly with his wife. Father and mother both were working in jhum field. Her parents were managing their living by hard work. Even, Mary worked hard in the fields, cut woods, made charcoal and fishing in order to help her parents. Her house was more like a hut, her bedroom, which she had to share with two sisters and one brother. It was like a box. Even little meat or fish was too expensive for her family. They worked the land but did not own any of that land. The Dark Night of Mary Kom’s life was like never ending and too dark for a girl especially from a tribal community of an ignored state mostly. 
But in this Dark Night she saw a dream. Dream that could be more darken her Night of life. Dream that is very hard for even boy child of well to do family, she was a girl child and from poorest of poor family. Dream to become a Boxer. Yes she wanted to enter in men’s game, requires stamina less but a strong body and Boxing isn’t considered a lady-like sport even today. She was inspired by Manipuri boxer Dingko Singh who had won gold medal at the Asian Games. Before then she had boxed dream in secret, having moved away from home in her mid-teens to train as an athlete. A poor girl is dreaming for the sport which is difficult for normal people too. It was not easy dream to fulfil because of her patent’s financial situation and her communal background. She was in doubt, whether her parent allowed or not. And also worried about injury because if she got injured, she would not able to support family with her earning, if hurts on face then it could be difficult to marry too. It was very tough to make it possible. When she decided to take up boxing, she had to hide it from her parents. Her father found out when he saw her picture in the paper after she won the state championships. When Mary Kom told her father she wanted to be a serious boxer he sold his prized possession, the family cow, to pay for travel and training costs.
This was the time, she felt, after a long Dark Night –
SUN
RISE
IN
HER LIFE
“I still remember I was castigated by my father who said with a battered and bruised face, I should not expect to get married. He was furious that I took to boxing – a taboo for women – and he did not have the slightest idea about it. But my passion for the sport had got the better of me and I thank my cousins who coaxed and cajoled my father into eventually giving his nod. I’m happy that I did not let anybody down,” she told the Deccan Herald in September 2004.
Today she is The Sun for Indian women sports and for those who is trying to make career in sports. See her achievements, not less than Sachin’s in Cricket.
Medal Records 
Competitor for: India Women’s boxing Summer Olympics
Bronze: In 2012 London for Flyweight (51kg)
Competitor for: Women’s World Amateur Boxing Championships Gold: in 2010 Bridgetown for 48 kg Gold: in 2008 Ningbo City for 46 kg Gold: in 2006 New Delhi for 46 kg Gold: in 2005 Podolsk for 46 kg Gold: in 2002 Antalya for 45 kg Silver: in 2001 Scranton for 45 kg
Competitor for: Asian Women’s Boxing Championship Gold: in 2012 Ulaanbaatar for Flyweight Gold: in 2010 Astana for Flyweight Gold: in 2005 Kaohsiung for Pin weight Gold: in 2003 Hissar for Pin weight Silver: in 2008 Guwahati for Pin weight Competitor for: Asian Games Bronze: in 2010 Guangzhou for Flyweight
Competitor for: Indoor Asian Games Gold: in 2009 Hanoi for Pin weight
Competitor for: Asian Cup Women’s Boxing Tournament Gold: in 2011 Haikou for 48 kg
Competitor for: Witch Cup Gold: in 2002 Pécs for Pin weight
Competitor for: Flyweight 48 to 51 kg in the Asian Games 2014 and won Gold Medal.
Achievements of Mary Kom
International Achievements:
  • Second position in the year 2001 for 48 kg for the Women’s World Amateur Boxing Championships at Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA.
  • First position in the year 2002 for 45 kg for the Women’s World Amateur Boxing Championships at Antalya, Turkey.
  • First position in the year 2002 for 45 kg for the Witch Cup at Pécs, Hungary.
  • First position in the year 2003 for 46 kg for the Asian Women’s Championships at Hisar, India.
  • First position in the year 2004 for 46 kg for the Women’s World Cup at Tønsberg, Norway.
  • First position in the year 2005 for 46 kg for the Asian Women’s Championships at Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
  • First position in the year 2005 for 46 kg for the Women’s World Amateur Boxing Championships at Podolsk, Russia.
  • First position in the year 2006 for 46 kg for the Women’s World Amateur Boxing Championships at New Delhi, India.
  • First position in the year 2006 for 46 kg for the Venus Women’s Box Cup at Vejle, Denmark.
  • First position in the year 2008 for 46 kg for the Women’s World Amateur Boxing Championships at Ningbo, China.
  • Second position in the year 2008 for 46 kg for the Asian Women’s Championships at Guwahati, India.
  • First position in the year 2009 for 46 kg for the Asian Indoor Games at Hanoi, Vietnam.
  • First position in the year 2010 for 48 kg for the Women’s World Amateur Boxing Championships at Bridgetown, Barbados.
  • First position in the year 2010 for 46 kg for the Asian Women’s Championships at Astana, Kazakhstan.
  • Third position in the year 2010 for 51 kg for the Asian Games at Guangzhou, China.
  • First position in the year 2011 for 48 kg for the Asian Women’s Cup at Haikou, China.
  • First position in the year 2012 for 51 kg for the Asian Women’s Championships at Ulan Bator, Mongolia.
  • Third position in the year 2012 for 51 kg for the Summer Olympics at London, United Kingdom.
  • Mary Kom won the gold medal first time in the Asian Games 2014 for flyweight 48 to 51 kg.
National Achievements:
  • Gold medal for first Women Nat. Boxing Championship at Chennai in the year 2001.
  • Won the East Open Boxing Championship at Bengal in the year 2001.
  • Second Sr. World Women Boxing Championship at New Delhi in the year 2001.
  • Won the National Women Sort Meet at New Delhi in the year 2001.
  • 32nd National Games at Hyderabad in the year 2002.
  • Third Sr. World Women Boxing Championship at Aizawl in the year 2003.
  • Fourth Sr. WWBC at Kokrajar, Assam in the year 2004.
  • Fifth Sr. WWBC at Kerala in the year 2004.
  • Sixth Sr. WWBC at Jamshedpur in the year 2005.
Awards and Recognitions of Mary Kom:
  • Padma Bhushan award for Sports in the year 2013.
  • Arjuna Award for Boxing in the year 2003.
  • Padma Shree award for Sports in the year 2006.
  • Nominated for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in the year 2007.
  • Recorded as the People of the Year in the Limca Book of Records in the year 2007.
  • CNN-IBN and Reliance Industries’ Real Heroes Award in the year 2008.
  • Pepsi MTV Youth Icon in the year 2008.
  • Titled as the Magnificent Mary, AIBA in the year 2008.
  • Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in the year 2009.
  • Ambassador for the International Boxing Association for Women’s boxing in the year 2009.
  • Sahara Sports Award for Sportswoman of the year in the year 2010.
  • 10 lakh cash award by Ministry of Tribal Affairs of India.
  • 40 lakh cash award from the North Eastern Council.
50 lakh cash award for 2012 London Olympics by Rajasthan Government.
  • 50 lakh cash award and two acres of land by Manipur Government.
  • 20 lakh cash award by Assam Government.
  • 10 lakh cash award by Arunachal Pradesh Government.
  • Mary Kom has won the gold medal first time in the Asian Games of 2014 for the flyweight category of 48 to 51 kg.

  • What you sow, you will reap.  What I sow, I will reap.” M.C. Mary Kom
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