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Mongolian wrestling, known as Bökh (Mongolian script: ᠪᠥᠬᠡ; Mongolian Cyrillic: Бөх or Үндэсний бөх), is the folk wrestling style of Mongols in Mongolia, Inner Mongolia and other regions where touching the ground with anything other than foot or palm of hand loses the match. [1]
The games are Mongolian wrestling, horse racing, and archery, and are held throughout the country during midsummer. Women have started participating in the archery and girls in the horse-racing games, but not in Mongolian wrestling. In 2010, Naadam was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of UNESCO.
Erdenebatyn Bekhbayar (Mongolian: Эрдэнэбатын Бэхбаяр; born 13 August 1992) is a Mongolian freestyle wrestler who competes in the 57 kg division. He won a gold medal at the 2018 Asian Games [1] and bronze medals at the 2015 and 2017 world championships.
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). [2] In 1972 he was awarded the title of Merited Master of Sport of the USSR. [3]
In Bokh, fighters rely on leg sweeps, which are legal in sumo but were uncommon until the wave of Mongolian fighters turned professional. "It was like a kickboxer fighting a boxer," Mr Ó Néill said.
Tömör-Ochiryn Tulga (Mongolian: Төмөр-Очирын Тулга; born 11 February 1998) is a Mongolian wrestler. [1] He competed in the men's freestyle 65 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics. [2]
His rank/title, showing respect within the wrestling world, is "Dayar dursagdah, dalai dayan, avraga Sükhbat" literally meaning "Renowned by all, oceanic, titan Sükhbat," essentially the highest rank possible in Mongolian wrestling. He was also a two times winner (1995, 1997) in the Amateur Sumo World Championships.
At the 2012 Olympic Games in London, she won bronze in women's 63 kg freestyle. [2] It was Mongolia's first medal in freestyle wrestling since the 1980 Summer Olympics. [3] Battsetseg was the youngest ever world wrestling champion of Mongolia when she won in 2010 at the age of 20 years. Now Sükheegiin Tserenchimed is the youngest champion of ...