Asian Games – Hero of Day8 – Mongolia’s Erdenebat Tsendbaatar

The Asian Boxing Confederation’s project the Hero of the Day will be published after each competition day during the boxing tournament of the Asian Games where the competition finished in the Indonesian capital city. Mongolia’s Erdenebat Tsendbaatar became the last winner who could continue his nation’s successes at the lightweight (60kg).
Following Turkmenistan’s rising star Hursand Imankuliyev and South Korea’s two-time ASBC Asian Women’s Champion Oh Yeon Ji, Mongolia’s flyweight (52kg) boxer Gan-Erdene Gankhuyag, Thailand’s Chatchai Butdee and Philippines’ Rogen Ladon, Philippines’ Carlo Paalam, and DPR Korea’s Pang Chol Mi, Mongolia’s Asian Games winner Erdenebat Tsendbaatar became the Hero of Day8.
Mongolia’s Erdenebat Tsendbaatar was born in Arkhangai Aimag on October 16 in 1996 and began boxing at the age of 12 and trains with coach Enkhtaiwan Batbuyan. The Mongolian boxer claimed silver medal in the Children of Asia Games in Yakutsk in 2012 at the age of 16 which was his first international success.
The Mongolian lightweight (60kg) boxer qualified for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games where he reached the quarter-finals before his 20th birthday. The young Mongolian boxer proved top performance in the preparation events of the Asian Games and arrived to Jakarta as one of the gold medal contenders of his category. Tsendbaatar defeated all of his four rivals in Jakarta including Uzbekistan’s Shunkor Abdurasulov in the final and won his career highlight a gold medal in the Asian Games.

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