India’s Six-Time Gold Medallist Mary Kom Pulls Out of 2023 World Boxing Championships With Injury
India’s Mary Kom, the most successful boxer in the history of the Women’s World Championships with six titles, has pulled out of this year’s event due to injury.
The 40-year-old has not specified the nature of the injury but she said that she is looking to “recover soon”.
The International Boxing Association World Championships are due to take place from May 1 to 14 this year in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
“I will not be able to participate in IBA Women’s World Championship 2023 due to injury,” Kom told ANI.
“I am trying to recover soon.
“I hope we can get more champions from this Championship.
“I wish all the best to the participants.”
Last summer Kom had to miss competing at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham after twisting her left knee in a bout at the Indian selection trials.
Kom is regarded as one of the greatest Indian athletes of all time.
She is the only female boxer to have won a medal in each one of the first seven World Championships, and the only boxer (male or female) to win eight World Championship medals.
Kom also became the first Indian female boxer to win a gold medal in the Asian Games in 2014 at Incheon, South Korea and was the first Indian female boxer to win gold when she triumphed at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
At London 2012 she became the first female Indian boxer and the second boxer overall from her country to win an Olympic medal when she claimed bronze.
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