Mary Kom is without a question one of the world’s most intriguing athletes. Kom’s narrative is amazing, which is why she has already had a full film created about her life. She was born in an impoverished part of India, and it appeared that she would spend her life working on the land with her family.
Despite her family’s concerns, she relocated to the city, became a boxer after convincing a local coach to take her on, and rose through the ranks to become a champion.
Kom has won a medal at each of the eight AIBA World Boxing Championships since 2001 (six golds, a silver, and a bronze, most lately in 2019), risen to No. 1 in the AIBA world flyweight standings, and earned in the London 2012 Olympic Games, where she won a bronze medal after losing to eventual winner Nicola Adams.
She was the first Indian woman to win gold at both the Asian and Commonwealth Games (in 2014), (2018).
Kom was born in the village of Sagang in the Churachandpur district of Manipur. They moved to Kangathei village, Moirang Lamkhai in the Churachandpur region of rural Manipur, India, after five months of her birth.
Throughout high school, Kom participated in a variety of sports, such as volleyball, football, and athletics. Dingko Singh’s success impacted her choice to switch from track and field to boxing in 2000. Kom is married to Karung Onkholer, a footballer. After her suitcase was taken while traveling by rail to Bangalore in 2000, Kom saw her spouse for the first time. On her way to the National Games in Punjab, she met Onkholer, a law student at Delhi University, in New Delhi. Kom was assisted by Onkholer, who was the president of the North East students’ body. They became buddies and started seeing each other after that. In 2005, they married after four years of dating. They have three sons together, twins born in 2007 and a third born in 2013. Kom and her spouse adopted a girl called Merilyn in 2018.
