Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar

This is a Mongolian name. The given name is Tüvshinbayar, and the name Naidan is a patronymic, not a family name.

Personal information

Nationality

Mongol

Born

1 June 1984^[1]
Saikhan sum, Bulgan Province, Mongolia,

Height

1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)

Medal record

Representing Mongolia
Men's Judo
Olympic Games
	2008 Beijing	-100kg
	2012 London	-100kg
World Championships
	2015 Astana	Teams
Asian Games
	2014 Incheon	-100 kg
Asian Championships
	2016 Tashkent City	-100 kg
	2007 Kuwait City	-100 kg
	2008 Jeju City	-100 kg
	2011 Abu Dhabi	-100 kg

Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar (Mongolian: Найдангийн Түвшинбаяр) 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 the 14th of August, 2008, he was inducted as the state honored athlete of Mongolia as well as hero of labor.^[5]

In 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]

He currently resides in Ulaanbaatar.

References

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