 | « Back to article | Print this article |
Five-time World boxing champion M C Mary Kom‘s achievements are endless. Now, she has made India proud at the Incheon Asian Games.
Asian Games: Boxing queen Mary Kom wins gold
Complete coverage: 2014 Asian Games
India's boxing ace added another feather to her already crowded cap, becoming the first Indian woman boxer to clinch a gold medal at the Asian Games on Wednesday.
At the 2010 Asiad she had to settle for bronze.
The mother of three travelled to Incheon with only the gold medal on her mind.
The 31-year-old beat Kazakhstan's Zhaina Shekerbekova 2-0 in a evenly-contested flyweight (51kg) final after a near-perfect performance.
The multiple-time Asian champion displayed awe-inspiring stamina and was destructively precise with her punches, catching her opponent off-guard with sublime ring craft.
Mary had scored a convincing 3-0 victory over her taller Vietnamese opponent, Ler Thi Bang, in the semi-finals.
The Olympic bronze medallist had earlier set her Asian Games campaign rolling in style by out-punching Korea's Kim Yeji to enter the quarter-finals.