And for the first time ever Mongolia was represented at the Olympic stage in a team sport discipline – the 3×3 women’s basketball team. They won two medals.Īnd for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Mongolia sent 43 athletes this time representing wrestling, judo, swimming, athletics, archery, shooting, weightlifting, table tennis and boxing. 2016 marked Mongolia’s Olympic debut in taekwondo. In 2016 43 Mongolian athletes headed to the 2016 Rio Olympics – 26 men and 17 women, across nine different sports including Judo, freestyle wrestling, boxing, track and field athletics (marathon), swimming, weightlifting and recurve archery. The colour is not important – it’s being in the Olympics’ (It’s not the exact quote but then I had also had a couple of large draft Chinggis beers myself!) We are a country of about 3.2 million people and 5 medals are good. He replied, in his own self-taught version of the English language, (helped in confidence by a couple of large draft Chinggis beers) ‘we are very happy. During our farewell dinner, one of our clients asked Turuu, co-founder of Eternal Landscapes, about the Mongolian medal tally of 5 but with gold remaining elusive. In 2012, Mongolia didn’t win a gold but they did take home their best ever medal tally of 5.
(FRANCK FIFE/AFP/Getty Images)īack in 2012, we finished a tour on the day of the London Olympics closing ceremony. The province of Bulgan (the home province of Tuvshinbayar Naidan) held a Naadam Festival in his honour to celebrate his return. Tuvshinbayar Naidan celebrating his semi-final victory. Main street junctions came to a complete standstill – anyone who needed to get anywhere gave up and stayed and celebrated instead. The city erupted in a flood of vodka toasts, the national anthem, blaring car horns, and an explosion of fireworks – the nation’s flag flying from hands, vehicles and the tallest buildings. On the occasion of the wins, Mongolians took to the streets of UB in instantaneous celebration – those clever entrepreneurial kids, who always know exactly what to sell when were out selling the Mongolian flag. They then also took a third gold at the 2008 Paralympics when Baatarjav Dambadondog won the men’s archery recurve standing competition. It then went and won a second (in the bantamweight boxing). Also, Mongolia first competed at the Summer Paralympic Games in 2000, and has competed in every edition of the Summer Paralympics.ĭid you know that Mongolia won their first gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics (Judo, men’s half heavyweight (100kg) won by Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar). Gansukh, sent a congratulatory message to all wrestlers for their achievements.What do you know about Mongolia and the Olympics?ĭid you know that Mongolia has a National Olympic Committee? Those who have been to Ulaanbaatar may have passed it by at Olympic House on Chinggis Avenue without realising.ĭid you know that Mongolia first participated at the Olympic Games in 1964? Since then, it has sent athletes to compete in all but one of the summer games (Mongolia was part of the boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics led by the Soviet Union). The President of the Mongolian Wrestling Federation, P. Athletes in wrestling captured the first four Olympic medals for Mongolia at Mexico 1968 and the sport now has collected eight Olympic medals.Īt present, Team Mongolia consists of 26 athletes: archery (1), athletics (3), 3x3 women’s basketball team (4), boxing (3), shooting (4), swimming (2), table tennis (2) and wrestling (7).
Wrestling is the most popular sport in Mongolia. Two Mongolian wrestlers had already booked their tickets to Tokyo and were joined by the five from Almaty, making seven in all on the wrestling team. Burmaa (women's 76kg), who competed at Athens 2004 and London 2012. Lkhagvagerel (125kg), will make their Olympic debut, while Tokyo 2020 will be the third Olympics for 39-year-old veteran O. Khongorzul (57kg), along with men's super-heavyweight M. The latest members of the delegation secured their quota places at Tokyo 2020 through the Asian Olympic wrestling qualifier in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, April 19, 2021: Team Mongolia for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games this summer has been expanded by five athletes from wrestling, taking the total so far to 26 athletes.
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