TIL Desk Sports/ The celebrated M C Mary Kom led the charge by assuring herself a sixth medal at the Asian women’s Boxing Championships, as three Indians entered the semi-finals of the continental showpiece in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on Saturday.
Advancing to the medal round, along with Mary Kom, were Shiksha (54kg) and Priyanka Chaudhary (60kg). Mary Kom, a five-time World champion and Olympics bronze medallist, defeated Chinese Taipei’s Meng-Chieh Pin in a split verdict in the quarter-finals to make the last four stage of the light-flyweight (48kg) category.
The 34-year-old, who has won four gold and a silver medal in her five previous appearances at the event, will face Japan’s Tsubasa Komura in the semi-finals on Tuesday. The medal she is guaranteed of is Mary Kom’s first in more than a year and a massive confidence-booster for the boxer who missed Olympic qualification last year.
