In the rural Indian state of Manipur's Churachandpur district, in the village of Kagathei, Moirang Lamkhai, Kom was born. Her family was a low-income Kom family. Tenant farmers Mangte Tonpa Kom and Mangte Akham Kom worked in jhum fields, where her mother was employed. Chungneijang was her given name. Kom was up in a modest environment, attending school, helping her parents with farm chores, and first learning athletics and then boxing all at the same time. When Kom's father was younger, he was an avid wrestler. She has a younger sister and a brother, making her the oldest of the three children. Her family is a Baptist Christian family.
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After completing her sixth year of education at the Loktak Christian Model High School in Moirang, Kom proceeded to St. Xavier Catholic School in Moirang up till eighth grade. She had a strong interest in athletics around this time, particularly 400-meter sprinting and the javelin. At this point, another Manipuri, Dingko Singh, returned with a gold medal from the 1998 Asian Games held in Bangkok. According to Kom, this encouraged a lot of young people in Manipur to attempt boxing, and she herself considered doing so.
Personal Life - Inside Mary Kom and Onler’s Journey
Kom is wed to Karung Onkholer, a football player (Onler). In 2000, Kom saw her spouse for the first time after her train luggage was taken on her way to Bangalore. On her way to the National Games in Punjab, she stopped in New Delhi and met Onkholer, a law student at Delhi University. Onkholer assisted Kom while serving as the North East student body president. Following their friendship, they started dating. In 2005, after four years together, they got married.
Together, the couple has three sons: a 2007 set of twins and a 2013 boy. Merilyn is the girl whom Kom and her husband adopted in 2018.
Mary Kom’s Golden Return to Boxing After Marriage
Following her marriage, Kom briefly stopped boxing. In 2007, Kom resumed her training following the birth of her twins. In the 2008 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships in China, she earned a gold medal, and in the 2008 Asian Women's Boxing Championship in India, she got a silver medal. In the 2009 Asian Indoor Games in Vietnam, she won a gold medal.
2010 saw Kom win her fifth consecutive gold medal in the AIBA Women's World Boxing Championship in Barbados, as well as the gold medal at the Asian Women's Boxing Championship in Kazakhstan. After AIBA discontinued utilising the 46 kg class, she participated in Barbados in the 48 kg weight division.
Association with Social Cause
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India supports Kom, an animal rights activist who is featured in an advertisement advocating for an end to the use of elephants in circuses. "Animals in circuses suffer greatly, being beaten and subjected to torture. As a mother, I can only image the suffering these animals endure when their young are taken from them so they can be forced to perform in circuses. Kom has been cited in the media as saying, "It's sad."
Additionally, Kom has supported PETA India's Compassionate Citizen humane education initiative. She has requested that the program be added to official school curricula in a letter addressed to the education ministers of all the states and union territories in India.
"Teaching compassion to young people is one of the best ways to knock out animal cruelty," she was quoted as saying in an interview published in the Times of India. Animals depend on us to stand by them. It is more crucial than ever that we instill values of compassion and respect in the classroom, especially in light of the violence that seems to surround us."
Chungneijang Indian Olympic boxer Mary Kom Hmangte, also referred to as Mary Kom, was born in Manipur. She is the only woman to have won the World Amateur Boxing Championship six times in her career and the only fighter to have medalled in every one of the seven world championships.
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