After her marriage, Kom took a short hiatus from boxing. After giving birth to her twins in 2007, Kom started training once again. followed by a gold medal at the
2009 Asian Indoor Games in Vietnam. In 2010, Kom won the gold medal at the Asian Women's Boxing Championship in Kazakhstan, and at the
2010 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships in Barbados, her fifth consecutive gold at the championship. She competed in Barbados in the 48 kg weight category, after AIBA had stopped using the 46 kg class. In the
2010 Asian Games, she competed in the 51 kg class and won a bronze medal. In 2011, she won gold in the 48 kg class at the Asian Women's Cup in China. On 3 October 2010, she, along with Sanjay and Harshit Jain, had the honour of bearing the
Queen's Baton in the
opening ceremony run in the stadium for the
2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi. She did not compete, however, as women's boxing was not included in the
Commonwealth Games. Kom, who had previously fought in the 46 and 48 kg categories, shifted to the 51 kg category after the world body decided to allow women's boxing in only three weight categories eliminating the lower weight classes. At the
2012 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championship, Kom was competing not just for the championship itself but also for a place at the
2012 London Olympics in London, the first time women's boxing had featured as an Olympic sport. She was defeated in the 51 kg quarter-finals by
Nicola Adams of the UK. She was the only Indian woman to qualify for the Olympic boxing event, with
Laishram Sarita Devi narrowly missing a place in the 60 kg class. Kom was accompanied to London by her mother. Kom's coach Charles Atkinson could not join her at the Olympic Village as he didn't possess an International Boxing Association (AIBA) 3 Star Certification, which is mandatory for accreditation. She had all her luggage and passport stolen on the way to the selection camp in Bangkok, Thailand for her first Asian Women's Boxing Championships. The first Olympic round was held on 5 August 2012, with Kom defeating
Karolina Michalczuk of Poland 19–14 in the third women's boxing match ever to be fought at the Olympics. In the quarter-final, the following day, she defeated
Maroua Rahali of
Tunisia with a score of 15–6. She faced
Nicola Adams of UK in the semi-final on 8 August 2012 and lost the bout 6 points to 11. However, she stood third in the competition and garnered an Olympic bronze medal. In recognition, the Manipur Government awarded her Rs 50 lakhs and two acres of land in a cabinet meeting held on 9 August 2012. On 1 October 2014, Kom won her first gold medal in the
boxing at the 2014 Asian Games, held in
Incheon,
South Korea, by beating
Kazakhstan's
Zhaina Shekerbekova in the flyweight (51 kg) summit clash. Though keen on representing India at the
2016 Rio Olympics, Kom was not able to qualify for the event. Kom had said that the
2020 Tokyo Olympics will be her last appearance at the Summer Games. On 8 November 2017, she received an unprecedented fifth gold medal (48 kg) at the
Asian Boxing Confederation (ASBC) women's boxing championships held at
Ho Chi Minh in
Vietnam. The only major international event that she had not won a medal in was the Commonwealth Games, as her category
Light flyweight was not included until the
2018 Commonwealth Games. There, Kom won the gold medal in the
women's light flyweight 48 kg on 14 April 2018. On 24 November 2018, she became the first woman to win 6 World Championships, achieving this feat at the 10th AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships held in New Delhi, India. In October 2019, the
International Olympic Committee (IOC) named Kom as a female representative of boxing's athlete ambassadors group for the
2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. In
2020 Summer Olympics, she fought against the Rio Olympics bronze medalist Colombian boxer
Ingrit Valencia. As the match ended, the commentator announced the winner on points by split decision. A brief momentarily pause was followed by "in red," another short pause, but by this time Mary Kom, in the blue corner, had put up her fist in celebration and did not follow the rest of the commentary that mentioned "Ingrit Valencia". "I had beaten this girl twice in the past. I couldn't believe that her hand was raised by the referee. I swear, it hadn't struck me that I lost, I was so sure," she said in an interview. In May 2021, Mary Kom won her 7th medal at the Asian Championships but lost the women's 51kg final on Sunday to
Nazym Kyzaibay. Kom won her first medal at the tournament in 2003. In the Asian Boxing Olympic Qualifying rounds held in August 2021, Kom lost to China's
Chang Yuan in a semi-final. ==Super Fight League==