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Mary Kom is the only boxer (male or female) to win eight World Championship medals. Mary Kom is an Indian amateur boxer. She is the only female to become World Amateur Boxing champion for a record six times, the only female boxer to have won a medal in each one of the first seven World Championships, and the only boxer (male or female) to win eight World Championship medals. Nicknamed Magnificent Mary, she is the only Indian female boxer to have qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics, competing in the flyweight (51 kg) category and winning a bronze medal. She became the first Indian female boxer to win a gold medal in the Asian Games in 2014 at Incheon, South Korea and is the first Indian female boxer to win gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. She is also the only boxer to become Asian Amateur Boxing Champion for a record six times.

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Collegiate wrestling (also known as folkstyle wrestling) is the form of wrestling practised by men at the college and university level in the United States. This style, with some slight modifications, is also practised at high school and middle school levels, and also among younger participants, where it is known as scholastic wrestling. These names help distinguish collegiate wrestling from other styles of wrestling that are practised around the world such as those in the Olympic Games: freestyle wrestling and Greco-Roman wrestling.

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Sushil Kumar is an Indian freestyle wrestler. He was competing in the 66 kg weight division when he won the 2010 world title, a silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which made him the only Indian (since independence) to win two individual Olympic medals. He carried the Indian flag at the opening ceremony of 2012 London Olympics. His 2008 Olympic medal was second for India in wrestling and the first since K D Jadhav’s bronze medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

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Jatindra Charan Guha, popularly known by his ring name Gobar Guha, was a world-famous Indian wrestler and practitioner of Pehlwani. He was the first Asian to win the World Light Heavyweight Championship in the United States in 1921. When he disposed of the then World Light Heavyweight Champion and catch wrestler Ad Santel on 30 August 1921 at the Coliseum in San Francisco, he became the first Asian to win a World Professional Wrestling Championship in the United States.

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The Sinclair Coefficients are a method to compare different weight classes in Olympic weightlifting. It replaced Hoffman’s formula, which was the first statistical analysis of this type.

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Vasily Alekseyev holds the record of winning the most number of gold medals in the World Weightlifting Championships all-time.

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Jon Frederic Cole was a powerlifter, Olympic weightlifter and strongman from the United States. Having set world records in the squat, deadlift and total during his career, he was multiple times AAU US National Powerlifting Champion as well as an outstanding Olympic weightlifter, discus thrower and shot-putter. Being the “premier strongman” of the early 1970s for his overall excellence in powerlifting, Olympic lifting and strength-based track and field, Cole was at one time known as the “strongest man in the world” for holding the greatest combined powerlifting/weightlifting super total of all time.

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International Volleyball Federation is the international governing body for all forms of volleyball. Its headquarters are located in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team’s court under organized rules.

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The International Handball Federation (IHF), headquartered in Switzerland, is the administrative and controlling body for handball and beach handball. IHF is responsible for the organisation of handball’s major international tournaments, notably the IHF World Men’s Handball Championship and the IHF World Women’s Handball Championship.