Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar
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Nationality | Mongolian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | [1] Saikhan sum, Bulgan Province, Mongolia | 1 June 1984|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Mongolia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Judo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar (Mongolian: Найдангийн Түвшинбаяр born 1 June 1984) is a Mongolian judoka. He is the 2008 Olympic Champion, 2012 Olympic silver medalist, 2014 Asian games champion, 2015 World Bronze medalist, 2016 Asian championship Gold medalist, 2007 silver medalist and two-time (2008,2011) bronze medalist in -100 kg division.
At the 2006 Asian Games he finished in joint fifth place in both the heavyweight (-100 kg) division and the open weight class division.[2]
In the same division, he won a gold medal at the Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing. He was the first Mongolian ever to win a gold medal at the Olympics,[3] by defeating Kazakhstani judoka Askhat Zhitkeyev.[4] On 14 August 2008, he was inducted as the state honoured athlete of Mongolia as well as a hero of labour.[5]
At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, he won a silver medal, becoming the first Olympic multimedalist from Mongolia.[6] He won his silver medal despite suffering a serious injury in the semifinal bout.[7]
References
- ^ London 2012 Olympics.com
- ^ 2006 Asian Games profile
- ^ Mongolia wins 1st gold
- ^ Tüvshinbayar wins gold Archived 2008-08-15 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Hero of labor". Archived from the original on 2012-02-14. Retrieved 2008-09-01.
- ^ http://sport.news.mn/content/116033.shtml
- ^ UB Post
- 1984 births
- Living people
- People from Bulgan Province
- Mongolian male judoka
- Olympic judoka of Mongolia
- Judoka at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Judoka at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Judoka at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Mongolia
- Olympic silver medalists for Mongolia
- Olympic medalists in judo
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Asian Games medalists in judo
- Judoka at the 2006 Asian Games
- Judoka at the 2010 Asian Games
- Judoka at the 2014 Asian Games
- Asian Games gold medalists for Mongolia
- Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
- Judoka at the 2018 Asian Games
- Mongolian sportspeople stubs
- Asian Olympic medalist stubs
- Mongolian judo biography stubs