Mongolia at the Olympics

Mongolia, the NOK, the National Olympic Committee of Mongolia, established in 1956 and in 1962 was recognized by the IOC since 1964 in the Olympic Summer and Winter Games part. In 1984, one of the Soviet boycott of the Games of Los Angeles. 1976 was dispensed to participate in the Winter Games in Innsbruck.

A total of 263 athletes entered, including 54 women, at. Mongolian athletes have so far won 24 medals. The first was the medalist wrestler Jigjidiin Mönkhbat, who in 1968 won the silver medal in the middleweight freestyle. First Olympic champion of Mongolia was on 14 August 2008, the judoka Naidangiin Tüwschinbajar when he won the light heavyweight division. With a silver medal in 2012, he is the most successful Mongol at the Olympic Games. First Mongolian with a medal in 1992 was the marksman Munkhbayar Dorjsuren that won the bronze medal with the pistol. Dorjsuren who participated six times in the Olympic Games, started from 2004 for Germany and won in 2008, again with the pistol, again a bronze medal.

The youngest member of a Mongolian team in 1980 was the gymnast Davaasurengiin Oyuuntuyaa which was launched at the age of 13 years. The cross-country skiers Luvsandashiin Dorj was in 1984 at the age of 40, the oldest starter.

Overview of participants

Summer Games

Winter Games

List of medalists

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