Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar
Mongolian judoka (born 1984)
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Tuvshinbayar Naidan (Mongolian: Найдангийн Түвшинбаяр born 1 June 1984) is a Mongolian former professional judoka.[2] He is the 2008 Olympic Champion, 2012 Olympic silver medalist, 2014 Asian games champion, 2017 World Championships bronze medalist, 2016 Asian Championships gold medalist, 2007 silver medalist and two-time (2008, 2011) bronze medalist in –100 kg division. Naidan is serving a sixteen-year jail term since 2021 for killing fellow judoka and childhood friend Erdenebileg Enkhbat.
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| Native name | Найдангийн Түвшинбаяр | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Mongolia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 June 1984[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Judoka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 115 kg (254 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Mongolia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Judo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | –100 kg, +100 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Olympic Games |  (2008) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Champ. | 
(2017) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Asian Champ. | 
(2014, 2016) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| JudoInside.com | 43486 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Olympic career
At the 2006 Asian Games he finished in joint fifth place in both the heavyweight (–100 kg) division and the open weight division.[3]
Tuvshinbayar won the men's 100 kg division's gold medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. He was the first Mongolian ever to win a gold medal at the Olympics,[4] by defeating Kazakhstani judoka Askhat Zhitkeyev a sode tsurikomi goshi with the leg grab[5] (according to the old rules of judo, where it is allowed to double and single leg takedowns,[6] with the legs grabbed by the hands,[7] similar to a freestyle wrestling).[8] On 14 August 2008, he was inducted as the state honoured athlete of Mongolia as well as a hero of labour.[9]
At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Tuvshinbayar won a silver medal, becoming the first Olympic multimedalist from Mongolia. He won his silver medal despite suffering a serious injury in the semifinal bout.[10] Also, at the 2017 World Championships, he won a bronze medal match against Guram Tushishwili from Georgia by earning an ippon after a series of techniques including a kata gatame roll and an yoko shiho gatame, becoming both an Olympics and World Championships multimedalist.[11][12]
Mongolian wrestling career record
| Year | Level | Participants | Rank | Wins | Earned title | Notes |
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| 2020 | State | 512 | State Elephant | 2 | ||
| 2019 | State | 512 | State Elephant | 3 | ||
| 2018 | State | 512 | State Elephant | 4 | ||
| 2017 | State | 512 | State Hawk | 7 | State Elephant | |
| 2016 | State | 1024 | State Hawk | Didn't participate. | ||
| 2015 | State | 512 | State Hawk | 3 | ||
| 2014 | State | 512 | State Hawk | 4 | ||
| 2013 | State | 512 | Lion of Aimag | 6 | State Hawk | |
| State Naadam Winner Won at least 5 rounds in State Naadam Aimag/Sum Naadam Promotion | ||||||
Assault and jailing
In April 2021, Tüvshinbayar was jailed for 20 days following a drunken assault on Erdenebileg Enkhbat, who was a childhood friend.[14] Enkhbat died on 24 December 2021 from a brain injury related to the assault. Following Enkhbat's death, new charges were filed against Tüvshinbayar. On 9 June 2022, the Khan-Uul District Court sentenced Tuvshinbayar to 16 years in prison for the deadly assault.[15]
