Dambadondogiin Baatarjav (, born June 2, 1961) is a

Mongolia Mongolia; Mongolian script: , , ; lit. "Mongol Nation" or "State of Mongolia" () is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south. It covers an area of , with a population of just 3.3 million, ...

n professional

archer Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In mo ...

. He competed for

archery at the 2006 Asian Games Archery was competed at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar. Men and women competed in both individual and team events with all competition taking place at the Lusail Archery Range from December 9 through December 13. The competition included on ...

. Baatarjav finished the

2006 Asian Games 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...

with a total of 1167 points compared to the 1332 points of South Korean Im Dong Hyun. He won

's first-ever medal and first-ever gold medal in the Paralympic Games by winning the men's individual recurve standing event at the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games. The athlete's page

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1961 births Living people Mongolian male archers Paralympic archers for Mongolia Paralympic gold medalists for Mongolia Paralympic medalists in archery Archers at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Asian Games competitors for Mongolia Archers at the 2006 Asian Games 20th-century Mongolian people {{Paralympic-medalist-stub