Due to an injury, Mary Kom has stated that she will not compete in the boxing Women’s World Championships this year.
Mary Kom, a six-time world champion, has announced that she will not compete in the boxing women’s world championship this year due to an injury.
The 40-year-old, who has won eight medals at the World Championships. Hasn’t said what the injury is, but she hopes to “recover soon.”
This year, the IBA World Championships will be held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, from May 1 to May 14. Due to an injury, I will not be able to compete in the IBA Women’s World Championship in 2023.
I’m working to get better soon. I hope that this championship will result in additional champions. “I wish the participants all the best,” Mary is quoted by ANI as saying.
Due to a knee injury, Mary was unable to participate in the selection trials for the Birmingham Commonwealth Games the previous year.
In the first few minutes of the 48 kg semifinals, she twisted her left knee. In the very first round of the fight, Mary attempted to dodge a punch and fall to the ground.
Mary is the World Championships’ most successful boxer and one of the greatest Indian athletes of all time.
She is the only female boxer to have won eight World Championship medals and the only female boxer to have won a medal in each of the first seven tournaments.
Mary is also the first Indian female boxer to win a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in 2018 and the first Indian female boxer to win a gold medal at the Asian Games in 2014.
When she won bronze at the 2012 Olympics in London. She became the first Indian woman boxer and the second pugilist overall from her country to win an Olympic medal.