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Who is India's only six-time world boxing champion?
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Answer: Option C — Mary Kom
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Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom of Manipur is the only boxer, man or woman, to have won six gold medals at the World Amateur Boxing Championships. She won the world title in 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2018.
Her World Championship record:
- She won medals at eight World Championships: six gold, one silver (2001, the first edition of the women's championships) and one bronze (2019).
- Eight medals is a record for any boxer, male or female, at the World Championships.
- Her sixth title came in 2018 in New Delhi, at the age of 35.
Other achievements:
She won the bronze medal in the women's flyweight (51 kg) category at the 2012 London Olympics, the first Olympics to include women's boxing. She was the first Indian woman boxer to win an Olympic medal.
She won gold at the 2014 Asian Games (Incheon), the first Indian woman boxer to do so, and gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
She was nicknamed "Magnificent Mary".
Honours:
- Arjuna Award (2003), Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (2009), Padma Shri (2006), Padma Bhushan (2013) and Padma Vibhushan (2020).
- She was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 2016.
- She was a flag bearer for India, with Manpreet Singh, at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
- A biographical film, "Mary Kom" (2014), starred Priyanka Chopra.
- She belongs to the Kom tribe of Manipur.
Other Indian women world champions in boxing:
Sarita Devi (2006), Jenny R. L. (2006) and Lekha K. C. (2006).
Nikhat Zareen (2022 and 2023).
In 2023, Nitu Ghanghas, Saweety Boora, Lovlina Borgohain and Nikhat Zareen all won gold at the World Championships in New Delhi.
Why not the other options?
- ✗Nikhat Zareen is a two-time world champion (2022 and 2023).
- ✗Lovlina Borgohain won one world title (2023) and an Olympic bronze (2020).
- ✗Sarita Devi won one world title (2006).
Quick tip
Remember: Mary Kom = six-time world champion (2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2018), eight World Championship medals, Olympic bronze 2012, Padma Vibhushan 2020; Nikhat Zareen = two-time world champion.
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