Dorjsurengiin Sumjaa

Dordschsürengiin Sumjaa ( Mongolian Доржсүрэнгийн Сумъяа ; born March 11, 1991 in Baruunturuun, Uws-Aimag ) is a Mongolian judoka . She was Olympic runner-up in 2016 and world champion in 2017.

Athletic career

The 1.60 m tall Dordschsürengiin Sumjaa fights in the lightweight, the weight class up to 57 kilograms. In 2010 she was the U20 Asian champion. The following year she finished fifth at the Asian Championships in the adult class. At the Asian Championships 2012 she was only defeated by the Japanese Anzu Yamamoto and received a bronze medal. The Mongol also took part in the 2012 Olympic Games in London, but lost there in her first fight to the South Korean Kim Jan-di .

As in the previous year, she lost to a Japanese woman at the 2013 Asian Championships, this time it was Megumi Ishikawa . In the hope round, Dorjsürengiin Sumjaa won a bronze medal. In 2014 she won the East Asian Games., She reached fifth place at the World Championships . A month after the World Championships, she won a bronze medal at the Asian Games after losing only to Kim Jan-di. In 2015 she finished seventh at the Asian Championships. At the Universiade 2015 in Gwangju , she defeated Kim Jan-di in the first round and won the title with four more victories. At the end of August at the World Championships in Astana, she lost to the Japanese Kaori Matsumoto in the quarter-finals , but fought her way to the bronze medal with victories over the Portuguese Telma Monteiro and the Canadian Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard . At the 2016 Asian Championships in Tashkent, she defeated the Japanese Anzu Yamamoto in the semi-finals and Kim Jan-di in the final. Almost four months later, at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Dorjsurengiin defeated Telma Monteiro in the quarter-finals and the Japanese Kaori Matsumoto through Ippon in the semi-finals. In the final she was defeated by the Brazilian Rafaela Silva with a penalty.

In May 2017, Dorjsurengiin Sumjaa finished fifth at the Asian Championships after losing to South Korean Kwon Jou-yeong in the semi-finals . Three months later, the Mongol won the quarterfinals of the World Championships in Budapest against the South Korean. In the semifinals she defeated Miryam Roper, who started for Panama, and in the final, the Japanese Tsukasa Yoshida . In 2018, Dorjsurengiin Sumjaa won a bronze medal at the Asian Games after a quarter-final defeat against North Korean Kim Jin-a . At the World Championships in Baku she was defeated in the semifinals by the British Nekoda Smythe-Davis , but then won the bronze medal by defeating Kwon Jeu-jeong.

Web links

• Dordschsürengiin Sumjaa in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Results on judoinside

Individual evidence

1. ↑ According to the article East Asian Games, there were no East Asian Games in 2014. According to this list of results 2014 East Asian Games Ulaanbaatar at judoinside.com already. Maybe they were East Asian championships.
2. ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com
3. ↑ The representation follows the Olympic database SportsReference.