Largest number of Mongolian athletes to compete in Rio de Janeiro Olympic Game
Mongolia has so far got 21 athletes qualified for the Olympic Games including in free wrestling, archery, shooting, athletics and boxing. It is believed that the national judo team will compete in the Olympics with a whole composition in all men and women’s weight categories
Mongolia has so far got 21 athletes qualified for the Olympic Games including in free wrestling, archery, shooting, athletics and boxing. It is believed that the national judo team will compete in the Olympics with a whole composition in all men and women’s weight categories. In addition, two swimmers will participate in the forthcoming Games with wild cards. Mongolia is also likely to receive extra quotas from qualification tournament for freestyle wrestling, boxing, archery, weightlifting, taekwondo and cycling. All in all Mongolia believes to have got up to 40 qualifications for the 2016 Olympics. In the previous London-2012 and Beijing 2008 Olympics, Mongolia was represented by 29 athletes. Since its participation in the Olympic Games of 1964, the Mongolian national team won two gold, nine silver and 13 bronze medals in wrestling, judo, boxing and shooting categories.
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