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August 14th, 2008 — Judo, Mongolia
Let us congratulate judoka Tuvshinbayar Naidan for winning the first ever gold medal for Mongolia. It is a historic achievement for Tuvshinbayar and for Mongolia which has won a total of 15 silver and bronze Olympic medals in the past.
With Naidan’s victory, it would be mission accomplished for the Mongolian Olympic team which targeted two medals when it arrived in Beijing. The other medalist is Otryad Gundegmaa who won a silver medal in shooting [women's 25m pistol].
April 21st, 2008 — Ethiopia, Marathon, Mongolia
Mongolia’s Serod Batochir bagged the marathon gold medal in the Good Luck Beijing 2008 preparatory games for the main show in August. Will Serod repeat as a gold medalist in the Olympic Games? Unlikely.
His run which clocked two hours, 30 minutes and 42 seconds is just too far away from those recorded by Athens 2004 medalists (where the bronze medalist clocked 2:12:11). Also, the current marathon world record is 2:04:26 by Ethiopia’s Haile Gebrselassie. By the way, as we reported earlier, Haile has decided to not compete in the marathon because of health concerns.
