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Oyuna Uranchimeg
Batoyun Uranchimeg is an American wheelchair curler and administrative assistant at the University of St. Thomas. Early life Uranchimeg was born on June 23, 1973, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. She was born and raised in Mongolia before visiting a friend in Minnesota in 2000. During her stay, she got into a car accident and became paralyzed from the waist down. Career Following her accident, Uranchimeg became an Emerging Media Department's administrative assistant at the University of St. Thomas. She took up wheelchair curling in 2016 and became a member of the Four Seasons and Dakota Curling Club. While attending one the national team's training camps, Uranchimeg met Rusty Scheiber, the assistant coach of the national team, who encouraged her to pursue the sport. She joined the United States National Curling team in 2018 after successfully passing the pretrials. In 2021, Uranchimeg helped the United States National Curling team win a gold medal at the World Wheelchair-B Curling Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulaanbaatar
Ulaanbaatar (; mn, Улаанбаатар, , "Red Hero"), previously anglicized as Ulan Bator, is the capital and most populous city of Mongolia. It is the coldest capital city in the world, on average. The municipality is located in north central Mongolia at an elevation of about in a valley on the Tuul River. The city was originally founded in 1639 as a nomadic Buddhist monastic center, changing location 28 times, and was permanently settled at its current location in 1778. During its early years, as Örgöö (anglicized as Urga), it became Mongolia's preeminent religious center and seat of the Jebtsundamba Khutuktu, the spiritual head of the Gelug lineage of Tibetan Buddhism in Mongolia. Following the regulation of Qing-Russian trade by the Treaty of Kyakhta in 1727, a caravan route between Beijing and Kyakhta opened up, along which the city was eventually settled. With the collapse of the Qing Empire in 1911, the city was a focal point for independence efforts, leading ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
