Otrjadyn Gündegmaa

Otrjadyn Gündegmaa, 2017

Otrjadyn Gündegmaa ( Mongolian Отрядын Гүндэгмаа ; born May 23, 1978 in Ulaanbaatar ) is a Mongolian sports shooter in the disciplines of sport pistol and air pistol .

Gündegmaa first took part in the 1996 Olympic Games. With the sport pistol she qualified for the final and finished 5th. In Sydney four years later she reached the final again with the sport pistol and was sixth. In 2004 she achieved the same result again in Athens . In addition, there is 16th place with the air pistol over 10 meters. At the Asian Championships in Bangkok in 2005 , Gündegmaa won bronze with the air pistol. With the sport pistol, bronze was added with the sport pistol at the 2006 World Championships in Zagreb . With this, the Mongolin missed the 2007 Asian Championships in Kuwait Cityin fourth place another medal. Gündegmaa celebrated her greatest success at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , where she was twelfth with an air pistol. In an air pistol competition she won the silver medal behind Chen Ying from China and ahead of the former Mongolian Munkhbayar Dorjsuren, who started for Germany .

Gündegmaa has won the World Cup shooting four times so far, twice she was second and four times third.

Web links

• Otrjadyn Gündegmaa in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Portrait on the website of the IOC ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Status after the 2008 Olympic Games

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