Mary Kom voted the Most Valuable Player

Oct 13, 2014 Tushita Sports 0

At an event organised by Samsung in India, who also happened to be the sponsors of the Incheon Asian Games, M.C. Mary Kom was voted as the MVP or the Most Valuable Player of the sports event.

The event took place on Monday and aimed to facilitate the winners who did India proud during the recently held Asian Games.

M.C Mary Kom, is an Olympic bronze medallist and won the title of being the first female boxer of the country to have won gold in the Asian Games. She had won the gold medal in flyweight (51kg) class.

All the players and teams who had won gold during the Asian Games, were nominated in the contest. The India’s men’s hockey team, which had bagged a gold medal after defeating Pakistan in a close match also contested.

However, none of the players of the hockey team attended the felicitation occasion. Mr. Anil Khanna was seen at the event in representation for the IOA, the Indian Olympic Association.

According to him, N. Ramachandran, the IOA President or Rajeev Mehta, the Secretary General were busy with some prior engagements and therefore could not come to the event.

Among other gold medal winners, who marked their presence at the event, there were pistol shooter Jitu Rai, Wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt, relay runner M R Poovamma and discus thrower Seema Punia.

By the end of the Asian Games earlier this month, India managed to grab 11 gold, 10 silver and 36 bronze medals.

The five-time world champion, Mary Komsaid, “Many people had doubted whether I would be able to win a gold in the Asian Games at this situation. First, it is difficult in our society to continue this kind of sport after having three children.”

She also said that by getting gold for her country in the Asian Games she had made a very crucial point that even after having three kids, she is still in her top form.

“There is a mindset that a woman after becoming a mother cannot achieve success in sport. But I think I have proven wrong this kind of thinking and mindset,” said Mary Kom.

Talking about the time she won the medal in Incheon, she said, “When I was inside the ring, I don’t think of whether I may lose or win. I just think of giving my best.

“I won a medal in 2010 Games in Guangzhou also when women’s boxing was introduced in the Asian Games. Now I have returned with gold. I am really happy to have become the first Indian woman boxer to have won gold in the Asian Games,” she said.

As far as his game was concerned, Yogeshwar said that India should look forward to achieve more gold medals in the Asian Games than just one like it did this time.

“I won gold this time and that was after 28 years. It’s a long wait. I feel winning a lone gold in an edition of Asian Games is not enough. India should win more than one gold in each edition so that we don’t wait for long,” he said.

“I have not won a gold medal in World Championships. That is my goal next year and then there is the Olympics next year. Every athlete wants to win a gold medal in Olympics and that is the ultimate,” he said.

“I have settled down myself after changing weight to 65kg. In the three tournaments I have fought in 65kg so far, I have won gold in all of them — the first one in Italy, then Commonwealth Games and now Asian Games.”

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