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What did she consider her greatest achievement? Why?

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Mary Kom won a medal in each of the six World Boxing Championships she attended. There were a number of other international level Boxing Championships in Taiwan, Vietnam Denmark, and so on. But it was retaining her world title in 2006 by defeating Steluta Duta of Romania 22-7 at the fourth World Championship in New Delhi that she considered her greatest achievement in life because she was able to win at home.

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पाठ 2.1: The Queen of Boxing - Exercises [पृष्ठ ८]

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सामाचीर कलवी English Class 11 TN Board
पाठ 2.1 The Queen of Boxing
Exercises | Q 2. i) | पृष्ठ ८

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