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“I’m confident of winning in the forthcoming championships,” Mary Kom said while interacting with the mediapersons on the sidelines of a Red Shield-sponsored felicitation function at Leimakhong Army headquarters, 20 km north of here in Senapati district, on Wednesday morning.
Mary is physically and mentally prepared to take on the best in the coming Asian Games to be held at Guangzhou, China in November this year. Mary Kom, the 48kg world title holder, will fight in the higher weight category of 51kg in the coming Asian Games.
The Manipuri braveheart and mother twin kids had bagged her four previous golds in the 46 kg category. But this time, she switched to 48 kg and outclassed her Romanian opponent, Duta Seluta 16-6.
Though she wanted to dedicate her achievement to the country, this 27-year-old boxer’s ultimate goal seems to be winning a gold medal in the Olympic Games in London in 2012.
In today’s function, Maj Gen DS Hooda, General Officer Commanding of 57 Mountain Division, felicitated Mary Kom for her splendid performance of wining the fifth worldboxing title in a row.
Considering her tireless efforts at winning medals and guiding young boxers at her own boxing academy located near her official quarters at Langol Games Village in Imphal West district, the GOC assured assistance worth Rs 2 lakh under the Military Civic Action project for the academy. Maj Gen Hooda, appreciating the effort of Mary Kom, said that she is rightly named as ‘Magnificent Mary’ by world boxing as she has brought laurels tothe country as well as the State of Manipur.
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