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Asian Sportswriters Union crown MC Mary Kom 'Best Asian Female Athlete'
The Indian boxing icon and six-time world champion bagged the award following her exploits in the Asian women boxing scene.
It was a day to remember for Indian boxing fans on Tuesday after boxing icon MC Mary Kom was adjudged the best female athlete at the ‘Awards for Asia’ ceremony organized by Asian Sportswriters Union (AIPS Asia). India’s six-time world champion bagged the award following her exploits in the Asian women boxing scene.
The Chief Minister of Selangor, Y.A.B. Tuan Haji Amirudin Shari, gave away the trophies to the winners' representatives from various countries. AIPS Asia, the organization representing sportswriters in Asia since 1978, announced the winners at the end of the Selangor International Sports Summit which was a collaboration with the state of Selangor, located on the west coast of Malaysia.
Son Heung-Min, the 26-year-old South Korean international and Tottenham Hotspur star, was adjudged the best male Asian player.
The award will only inspire Mary Kom to go for a record seventh World Championship gold medal in the AIBA World Boxing Championships starting on September 7. The victory will take her past the Cuban legend Felix Savon.
This time she will compete in the 51kg flyweight category — the one chosen for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics — and not the 48kg. The 36-year-old flyweight boxer is the only woman boxer to have won a medal in seven world championships.
