Tsendiin Damdin

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Silver medalist Tsendiin Damdin at the 1980 Olympic Games

Tsendiin Damdin ( Mongolian Цэндийн Дамдин ; born March 31, 1957 in Binder, Chentii-Aimag ; † February 22, 2018 ) was a Mongolian judoka .

The 1.69 m tall Tsendiin Damdin competed in the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow at half-light weight (up to 65 kilograms). He first defeated Daniel François Fyfer from Zimbabwe by Ippon, then the French Yves Delvingt by a Yuko rating and in the quarterfinals the Swede Wolfgang Biedron by a Koka rating. In the semifinals, the Mongol defeated the Poland Janusz Pawłowski also with a coca rating. In the final he met the Soviet judoka Nikolai Soloduchin , Soloduchin won by a coca rating.

At the Judo World Championships in 1981 and 1983 , Tsendiin Damdin, each starting in the lightweight, completed a total of four fights, of which he won only one. Both times he dropped out early. In 1983 he won the Bulgarian Lovech an international tournament. In 1985 he finished third in the light middleweight division at a tournament in Prague.

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Individual evidence

  1. Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 728
  2. Match balance on judoinside