Six-time world champion Mary Kom has introduced that she shall be pulling out of this 12 months’s boxing Girls’s World Championship because of damage. The 40-year-old, who has received a complete of eight medals within the Worlds, has not specified the character of the damage however she mentioned that she is trying to “get better quickly”.
The IBA World Championships shall be held from Could 1 to 14 this 12 months in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. “I will be unable to take part in IBA Girls’s World Championship 2023 because of damage. I’m making an attempt to get better quickly. I hope we will get extra champions from this championship. I want all one of the best to the members,” Mary is quoted as saying by ANI.
Mary needed to miss out on the Birmingham Commonwealth Video games final 12 months after withdrawing from the choice trials with a knee damage. She had twisted her left knee within the first jiffy within the opening spherical of the 48kg semifinals. Mary had fallen on the canvas whereas making an attempt to dodge a punch within the very first spherical of the bout.
Among the many biggest Indian athletes of all time, Mary is probably the most profitable boxer within the historical past of the World Championships. She is the one feminine boxer to have received a medal in every one of many first seven World Championships, and the one boxer (male or feminine) to win eight World Championship medals. Mary additionally turned the primary Indian feminine boxer to win a gold medal within the Asian Video games in 2014 at Incheon, South Korea and is the primary Indian feminine boxer to win gold on the 2018 Commonwealth Video games. She turned the primary feminine Indian boxer and the second pugilist general from her nation to win an Olympic medal when she received bronze on the 2012 London Olympics.