OUR ATHLETES GRAB MEDALS FROM VETERAN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Mongolian athletes have won one silver and two bronze medals in Veteran World Championship which was held in Serbian Belgrade on August 26-30. The participants were veteran wrestlers from 37 countries. They competed in seven weight categories, and in A, B, C, D, E, F age categories. From Mongolia, there were sportsmen of 41-45 years. In men 69 kg of freestyle wrestling, out international master Kh.Nyamdorj won a silver medal. He had a bye at first round, defeated Andrew Patrick from South Africa ith 14:4 at second round, and Naziff Barutz from Turkey by 6:1 points at third round, and satisfied a silver medal condition. In the final match he lost to Vladimir Kuntz from Germany by 6:8 points. G.Dorjgotov in category of 85kg won a bronze medal. In 130kg category of the Greco-Roman wrestling, Sh.Bayanmunk defeated Pali Ravinder from India by 10:0 at first round, Evgenii Mashkov from Russia by 4:0 at second round, but was defeated by Adil Karibov from Kazakhstan at the match for silver, afterwards defeated Karoli Kovetz from Hungary with a sweep at the matching for bronze medal. Bayanmunkh is a fairly experienced wrestler, having won one silver and four bronze medals from Veteran World Championship tournaments.