Mongolia had Five Champions in Judo World Cup

Mongolia grabbed a total of 27 medals such as five gold, six silver, and 16 bronze medals at the Chinggis Khan Judo World Cup. The Judo World Cup took place in Central Palace of Sport, Ulaanbaatar on October 31st and November 1st, 2009.
There were 128 judo wrestlers from 13 countries such as Mongolia, South Korea, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Germany, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Japan, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Russia, Spain and Poland engaged at the tournament.

Results
Country overall:
1. South Korea with seven gold, two silver and three bronze medals
2. Mongolia with five gold, six silver and 16 bronze medals
3. Ukraine with two gold, two silver and four bronze medals
4. Germany with one silver and two bronze medals
5. Japan with one silver and one bronze medals
6. Poland with one silver medal
7. Kazakhstan with one silver medal
8. Czech with one bronze medal
9. Uzbekistan one bronze medal

On October 31st, the tournament was held under three men’s categories (60kg, 66kg and 73kg) and four women’s categories (48kg, 52kg, 57kg and 63kg) and Mongolia’s wrestlers received five gold, four silver and nine bronze medals during that day.
Mongolian Judo Wrestler and World Judo Champion, Kh.Tsagaanbaatar, grabbed gold medal, Sergiy Drebot (Ukraine) received silver medal, B.Khishigbayar and Hevorg Hevorgyan (Ukraine) took bronze medals in men 66 kg’s category.
Ch.Boldbaatar won gold medal, G.Boldbaatar took silver medal, O.Chinbat and D.Tomorkhuleg received bronze medals in men’s 60kg’s category. Gui-Man Ban (South Korea), won gold medal, Piotr Kurkiewicz (Poland), received silver medal, O.Bold-erdene and S.Nyam-Ochir (Mongolia) took bronze medals in men 73kg’s category.
Jung-Yeon Chung (South Korea) was awarded with gold medal, M.Urantsetseg (Mongolia) took silver medal, E.Nomin and B.Uranchimeg (Mongolia) received bronze medals in women 48kg’s event.
M.Bundmaa (Mongolia), won gold medal, B.Bat-Erdene (Mongolia) received silver medal, Keum-Mai Choi (South Korea) and Lucie Chytra (Czech) took bronze medals in women 52kg’s event.
Ts.Tserennadmid (Mongolia), garnered gold medal, D.Sumya (Mongolia), took silver medal, T.Battogs (Mongolia) and Jan-Di Kim (South Korea) received bronze medals in women 57kg’s event.
Ts.Monkhzaya (Mongolia), was rewarded gold medal, Da-Woon Joung (South Korea), took silver medal, Svetlana Chepurina (Ukraine) and S.Enkhzaya (Mongolia) received bronze medals in women 63kg’s event.
On November 1st, the event under four men’s categories (81kg, 90kg, -100kg and +100kg) and three women’s categories (70kg, -78kg and +78kg) took place at the central palace of sport.

Written by Kh.Ganchimeg

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