Mongolian Boxing Federation celebrates its 70th anniversary

The Mongolian National Boxing Championships was held in the recent days and during their most important event the Mongolian Boxing Federation celebrated its 70th anniversary. Mongolia is a key boxing country in the Asian continent with several top results since the ’70s and the last 15 years delivered strong results for them.
The Mongolian Boxing Federation hosted the 2007 edition of the ASBC Asian Confederation Boxing Championships for the men’s elite boxers in Ulaanbaatar. Five years later the ASBC Asian Confederation Women’s Boxing Championships was also held in Ulaanbaatar and their national federation has got strong plans to host new big events in the upcoming years.
Mongolia’s boxing has got strong traditions, their bests claimed medals in the AIBA and ASBC events, furthermore also in the recent editions of the Olympic Games. Mongolia achieved altogether 26 medals in the history of the Olympic Games and among them 7 was taking in boxing.
Enkhbat Badar-Uugan won the gold medal at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and became a national hero in Mongolia which is their lone title in the history of the event. Mongolia achieved two further silver medals and four bronze medals and the country was able to get podium places in the recent three editions of the Olympic Games in Beijing, in London and in Rio de Janeiro as well.
Purevdorj Serdamba was silver medallist at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games but after that he claimed gold at the Milan 2009 AIBA World Boxing Championships. His success in Milan was Mongolia’s first and until our present days the last gold medal but their new squad has got the potential to make their second happen in the upcoming events.
Uranchimeg Munkh-Erdene was one of the most successful boxers in Mongolia’s boxing history with medals from Olympic Games, AIBA World Boxing Championships and ASBC Asian Confederation Boxing Championships as well who is still active in our sport. Tugstsogt Nyambayar robbed into the world of boxing at the age of 17 and earned silver medals in the Milan 2009 AIBA World Boxing Championships and in the
Mongolia claimed its first ever gold medal in the history of the boxing tournament of the Asian Games only in 2014 when Dorjnyambuu Otgondalai won the lightweight (60kg) four years ago. He won gold medal also in the ASBC Asian Confederation Boxing Championships and bronze in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Mongolia had record number of six qualified boxers in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games which were strong successes for the country. Mongolia won its first ever medal a bronze at the AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships in New Delhi a few weeks ago where Nandintsetseg Myagmardulam took bronze medal at the bantamweight (54kg).
Another Mongolian female hope Namuun Monkhor achieved bronze medal at the Guwahati 2017 AIBA Women’s Youth World Boxing Championships and the teenage talent was quickly involved to their national elite team. Mongolia has got relatively low number of boxers but the quality of their national squad is world class.
Rio 2016 Olympic Games quarter-finalist 22-year-old Erdenebat Tsendbaatar claimed gold medal in the Jakarta 2018 Asian Games which was their top success in the current year. Chinzorig Baatarsukh was Olympian in Rio de Janeiro and achieved silver medals in the recent two big Asian events in Tashkent and also in Jakarta.

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