Munkhbayar Dorjsuren

Munkhbayar Dorjsuren, 2010

Munkhbayar Dorjsuren ( Mongolian Доржсүрэнгийн Мөнхбаяр , Dordschsürengiin Mönchbajar ; born July 9, 1969 in Ulaanbaatar , Mongolia ) is a German-Mongolian sports shooter.

Life

Dorjsuren shoots with the air pistol and the sport pistol. In the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , she won for Mongolia behind Marina Logvinenko and Li Duihong the bronze medal with the pistol and took for Mongolia also at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney in part. After the summer games in Australia she came to Germany because she saw no future prospects in her country. The games in Sydney ended with disastrous results for them. In 2002 she became a German citizen, in 2005 she became a soldier in the Bundeswehr .

She took part in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens for the German team . In the competition with the air pistol, she was sixth. At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, Munkhbayar Dorjsuren won the bronze medal with the sport pistol and thus won the first medal for German female pistol shooters in Olympic history.

Dorjsuren has a daughter and lives in Munich .

In May 2008, Dorjsuren received the Silver Laurel Leaf for the second time in Berlin .

Success for Mongolia

• 1992 bronze medal at the 1992 Olympic Games with the sport pistol
• 1996 World Cup winner in Havana with an air and sports pistol.
• 1997 World Cup winner in Milan with a sport pistol.
• 1998 world champion in Barcelona with the air pistol
• 1998 World Cup winner in Milan with the sport pistol.

Success for Germany

• 2002 world champion with the sport pistol
• 2002 World Cup victory in Milan with an air pistol
• 2002 German champion with air pistol
• 2003 European champion (team) with the sport pistol
• 2004 World Cup victory in Milan with the air pistol
• 2005 military world champion with the sport pistol
• 2005 silver medal at the military world championships (team) with the sport pistol
• 2005 bronze medal at the military world championships (team) with the rapid fire pistol
• 2007 silver medal at the World Military Games with the sport pistol
• 2008 bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Beijing with the sport pistol
• 2008 Winner of the World Cup final in Bangkok with the sport pistol
• 2008 silver medal at the military world championships (team) with the sport pistol
• 2008 silver medal at the military world championships (team) with the rapid fire pistol
• 2009 World Cup victory in Milan with the sport pistol
• 2009 military world champion with the sport pistol
• 2009 military world champion (team) with the sport pistol
• 2009 military world champion with the rapid fire pistol
• 2009 military world champion (team) with the rapid fire pistol
• 2012 silver medal at the World Cup final with the sport pistol

Awards

• "Best shooter 2009" (Conseil International du Sport Militaire)

Web links

• Munkhbayar Dorjsuren's profile at the German Schützenbund
• Munkhbayar Dorjsuren in the database of the International Shooting Sport Federation (English)
• Munkhbayar Dorjsuren in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ bundeswehr.de: Munkhbayar Dorjsuren: Shot meets bronze
2. ↑ gmx.de: Shooter Dorjsuren wins bronze with a sport pistol

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