<p>Olympic medal-winning boxer M.C. Mary Kom Thursday said she had also faced a sex attack when she was 18, but managed to overpower the assaulter.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The boxer expressed concern over women's safety in India and urged them to go for physical training to fend off attackers.<br /><br />"I would urge them to have some kind of physical training to prevent sex attacks, because you need to be strong and fit to fight attackers. I would also tell them to fight sex offence without fear," she said.<br /><br />The boxer's comments came in the wake of a series of rape cases, including of foreigners, reported from across the country.<br /><br />Mary Kom, who won a bronze in women's flyweight class in the 2012 London Olympics, said she faced a sex attack when she was 18, but managed to overpower the assaulter.<br /><br />"I was going to church on a Sunday. I was wearing a traditional wraparound dress and took a rickshaw as I was a bit late. Suddenly, the rickshaw puller caught my hand and tried to molest me," she told a stunned audience at an interactive session organised by the FICCI Ladies Organisation.<br /><br />Mary Kom said she kicked and punched the man who fell flat.<br /><br />"I managed to flatten him because I was fit and strong. But that incident taught me a lesson that as a woman, I have to be very alert all the time and must have courage (to fight the odds)," she said.<br /><br />Mary Kom recently launched a mobile app for teaching self-defence to women.<br /></p>
<p>Olympic medal-winning boxer M.C. Mary Kom Thursday said she had also faced a sex attack when she was 18, but managed to overpower the assaulter.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The boxer expressed concern over women's safety in India and urged them to go for physical training to fend off attackers.<br /><br />"I would urge them to have some kind of physical training to prevent sex attacks, because you need to be strong and fit to fight attackers. I would also tell them to fight sex offence without fear," she said.<br /><br />The boxer's comments came in the wake of a series of rape cases, including of foreigners, reported from across the country.<br /><br />Mary Kom, who won a bronze in women's flyweight class in the 2012 London Olympics, said she faced a sex attack when she was 18, but managed to overpower the assaulter.<br /><br />"I was going to church on a Sunday. I was wearing a traditional wraparound dress and took a rickshaw as I was a bit late. Suddenly, the rickshaw puller caught my hand and tried to molest me," she told a stunned audience at an interactive session organised by the FICCI Ladies Organisation.<br /><br />Mary Kom said she kicked and punched the man who fell flat.<br /><br />"I managed to flatten him because I was fit and strong. But that incident taught me a lesson that as a woman, I have to be very alert all the time and must have courage (to fight the odds)," she said.<br /><br />Mary Kom recently launched a mobile app for teaching self-defence to women.<br /></p>