Priyanka Chopra congratulates Mary Kom on Asian Games win

Calling her "a true champ", actress Priyanka Chopra today congratulated boxer Mary Kom for winning the gold medal at the ongoing Asian Games.

"I am more proud than I have been for a very, very long time. I am proud to be in the country where Mary Kom belongs," Priyanka, who starred in a biopic on Kom, said.

Kom, 31, defeated Kazakhstan's Zhaina Shekerbekova in the flyweight (51KG) summit clash in Incheon, Korea to become the first Indian woman boxer to clinch a gold medal at the Asian Games.

Priyanka, 32, took to Twitter to express her happiness. "Yaaaaaay!!! Now that's called Woman Power! Mary Kom gets gold... Makes India Proud & shows us that we can achieve anything! (sic)".
 

The 'Fashion' star, who became friends with Kom while working on the biopic, said the boxer was her hero.

"So proud of u @mangtec you r a true champ!! My Shero! Be Unbeatable Be Unbreakable Be MaryKom (sic)," she wrote.

Film's director Omung Kumar also congratulated Kom.