Jigjidiin Monk Bath

Jigjidiin Monk Bath
Nationality:	Mongolia
Date of birth:	June 1, 1941
Place of birth:	Earthen sant , Mongolia
Date of death:	April 9, 2018
Place of death:	Ulaanbaatar , Mongolia
Size:	1.75 m
Style:	Freestyle, Greco-Roman
Weight class:	medium weight

Jigdschidiin Mönchbat ( Mongolian Жигжидийн Мөнхбат ; born June 1, 1941 in Erdenesant ; † April 9, 2018 in Ulaanbaatar ) was a Mongolian wrestler .

Career

Jigjidiin Mönchbat participated in the Olympic Games in 1964 , 1968 and 1972 . In 1968 he was able to win the silver medal in the middleweight division . A year earlier he had already won the bronze medal at the World Championships in New Delhi in the same weight class . At the Asian Games in 1974 in Tehran , he was also able to win bronze in the class up to 90 kg in the Greco-Roman style .

He was the father of the sumo wrestler Hakuhō Shō .

Web links

• Jigdschidiin Mönchbat in the Olympedia.org database (English)

Mongolian name: As is customary in Mongolia, in this article the patronymic is in the genitive case before the proper name. Thus, Djigjidiin is the patronymic, Mönchbat the proper name. The person is addressed with their proper name.