Incheon, South Korea: India’s M.C. Mary Kom secured a berth in the gold medal bout of the women’s flyweight (48-51kg) competition after a convincing win in the semi-final of the 17th Asian Games here on Tuesday.
The 31-year-old Indian beat Vietnam’s Le Thi Bang by a unanimous 3-0 decision to enter the final.
The five-time world champion was in fine form and her speed and guile was too much for the Vietnamese fighter to handle.
Mary Kom peppered her opponent with multiple combination punches and didn’t give her any time to gain a foothold.
Le went for broke in the fourth and final round and managed to connect a few punches, but with the Indian having already won the previous three rounds there was very little the Vietnamese could do.
Judge A from Bulgaria ruled the bout 40-36 in favour of the Indian and Judge B of Morocco gave the same scores. Judge C of Italy awarded the fourth round 10-9 in favour of Le, but his final score of 39-37 went to Mary Kom.
