On August 16, 17 year-old freestyle wrestler B. Battsetseg, won a gold medal at the Summer Youth Olympic Games in Singapore.
B. Battsetseg, a member of the national team, competed in the weight category of girls’ 60 kg and defeated her opponents Talya Ford (New Zealand), Soure Aminita (Guinea), Svetlana Lipatova (Russia) and Kristina Victor (Nigeria). By beating Pooja Danda from India, she won the gold medal. D. Monkhbayar, coach of the Mongolia’s youngest Olympic champion is an athlete of the city’s Nalaikh district. B. Battsetseg is one of three Mongolian athletes who qualified to take part in the YOG by winning a bronze medal in the Asian competitions held in Tashkent city, Uzbekistan in May. There are 11 athletes participating in the YOG from Mongolia.
source: Mongol Messenger
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