Mönchbatyn Urantsetseg

Mönchbatyn Urantsetseg (in white) against the Brazilian Sarah Menezes at the 2016 Olympic Games.

Mönchbatyn Urantsetseg ( Mongolian Мөнхбатын Уранцэцэг ; born March 14, 1990 in Bajan-Owoo, Bajanchongor-Aimag ) is a Mongolian judoka . She was world champion 2013, world championship runner-up in 2017 and world championship runner-up in 2019.

Athletic career

The 1.64 m tall Mönchbatyn Urantsetseg mostly fights in the super lightweight, the weight class up to 48 kilograms. In 2008 she was third at the East Asian Championships. The following year she won a bronze medal at the Asian Championships in Taipei. At the Universiade 2009 in Belgrade she reached the final and received the silver medal behind the Japanese Haruna Asami . Her greatest success in 2010 was not judo, but sambo when she won the world title in Tashkent.

In 2011 Mönchbatyn Urantsetseg was a Mongolian judo champion. In 2012 she won the Asian Championships in Tashkent when she defeated the Chinese Wu Shugen in the final . Three months later she won her first fight at the Olympic Games in London against Kazakh Alexandra Podryadova . In the quarterfinals she was defeated by Romanian Alina Alexandra Dumitru and after her defeat by Argentinian Paula Pareto she finished seventh. In 2013 she won a bronze medal at the Asian Championships in Bangkok after losing to the Japanese Hiromi Endo in the semifinals . At the 2013 World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, she defeated the Cuban Maria Celia Laborde in the quarter-finals and the Brazilian Sarah Menezes in the semifinals . She won the world title by beating the Japanese Haruna Asami in the final.

In 2014 Mönchbatyn Urantsetseg won the Grand Slam tournament in Baku. At the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, she defeated the Japanese Emi Yamagishi in the final . In 2015 at the Asian Championships in Kuwait, she lost to Haruna Asami in the final. Two months later she won a bronze medal at the Universiade in Gwangju . In October 2015 she won the Grand Slam tournament in Paris. At the Asian Championships in Tashkent in 2016, she lost to the Kazakh Galbadrachyn Otgontsetseg in the final . At the 2016 Olympic Games , she defeated French Laëtitia Payet in the round of 16 and lost to South Korean Jeong Bo-kyeong in the quarter -finals . In the hope round she defeated the 2012 Olympic champion Sarah Menezes, in the battle for a bronze medal she was defeated by the Japanese Ami Kondo . At the end of 2016, she won the Tokyo Grand Slam tournament.

In 2017 Mönchbatyn Urantsetseg defeated Kazakh Galbadrachyn Otgontsetseg in the final of the Asian Championships in Hong Kong. At the 2017 World Championships in Budapest, she won the quarter-finals against Melanie Clement from France and Ami Kondo from Japan in the semi-finals, and lost to the other Japanese Funa Tonaki in the final . In 2018 the Mongol won bronze at the Asian Games in Jakarta after losing to Jeong Bo-kyeong in the semifinals. At the 2018 World Championships in Baku, she lost to Funa Tonaki in the semifinals and Galbadrachyn Otgontsetseg in the battle for bronze. A year later at the 2019 World Championships in Tokyo, she defeated the Kazakhstan in the quarter-finals, but lost in the semi-finals to the Ukrainian Darja Bilodid . With a victory over the Frenchwoman Melanie Clement, Urantsegseg secured a bronze medal.

Web links

• Mönchbatyn Urantsetseg in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Tournament results at judoinside

Footnotes

1. ↑ Sambo World Championships 2010 at judoinside.com
2. ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com
3. ↑ According to SportsReference, Urantsegseg needed a little over two minutes for their two victories.
4. ↑ Per nation, up to two women fighters from one country per weight class are permitted at world championships.
5. ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com