Option 2 : Fly Weight
The correct answer is Fly Weight.
- Mary Kom is an Indian boxer from the northeast state of Manipur.
- She is also known as MC Mary Kom or Magnificent Mary.
- Mary Kom is famed as a five-time World Boxing Champion and the only boxer to win a medal in every one of the six world championships.
- In the 2012 Olympics, she became the first Indian women boxer to qualify and win a bronze medal in the 51 kg flyweight category of Boxing.
- In 2003, Mary Kom won a gold medal in the 46 kg weight class at the Asian Women’s Boxing Championship in India and in 2004 she won a gold medal at the Women’s Boxing World Cup in Norway.
- Awards and recognitions:
- Arjuna Award (Boxing) in 2003
- Padma Shree (Sports) in 2006
- ‘Magnificent Mary’, AIBA in 2008
- Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 2009
- International Boxing Association’s Ambassador for Women’s Boxing in 2009
- Sportswoman of the year, Sahara Sports Award in 2010