Khorloogiin Bayanmönkh
This is a Mongolian name. The given name is Bayanmönkh, and the name Khorloogiin is a patronymic, not a family name. The subject should be referred to by the given name.
| Medal record | ||
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| Men's freestyle wrestling | ||
Competitor for  Mongolia
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| Olympic Games | ||
.svg.png){kind=icon} | 1972 Munich | Heavyweight |
| World Championships | ||
.svg.png){kind=icon} | 1975 Minsk | 100 kg |
| | 1971 Sofia | 100 kg |
| | 1974 Istanbul | 100 kg |
Khorloogiin Bayanmönkh (Mongolian: Хорлоогийн Баянмөнх; born February 22, 1944) is a retired Mongolian wrestler. At the 1972 Summer Olympics he won the silver medal in the men's freestyle heavyweight category.[1] His name Bayanmonkh means "Rich eternal" in the Mongolian language.
Bayanmönkh is the second most successful wrestler in Mongolian wrestling with 10 championship wins (1968 1971–1973, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981–1982, 1987).
In 1972 he was awarded the title of Merited Master of Sport of the USSR.[2]
References
- ↑ "Khorloogiin Bayanmönkh". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 13 August 2012.
- ↑ Panorama of the 1972 Sports Year (in Russian). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. 1973. pp. 122–124.
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