Tüvshintöriin Enkhtuyaa (also ''Tuvshintur Enkhtuya'', mn, Түвшинтөрийн Энхтуяа; born August 4, 1982, in

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 ce ...

) is a retired amateur Mongolian freestyle wrestler, who competed in the men's heavyweight category. He finished fourth in the 96-kg division at the

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, and later represented his nation

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, ...

at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

. Tuvshintur also trained for Gobi Wrestling Club in his native

, under his personal coach Agvaan Ganbaatar. Tuvshintur qualified for the Mongolian squad in the men's 96 kg class at the

Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

. Earlier in the process, he received a berth and rounded out the fourth spot in the heavyweight category from the

, losing the bronze medal to Bulgaria's

Krasimir Kochev Krasimir Simeonov Kochev ( bg, Красимир Симеонов Кочев; born May 4, 1974, in Petrich) is an amateur Bulgarian freestyle wrestler, who competed in the men's heavyweight category. Considered one of Bulgaria's top freestyle wres ...

. Tuvshintur lost two straight matches each to Turkey's

Fatih Çakıroğlu Fatih Çakıroğlu (born April 14, 1981, in Istanbul), is a Turkish European champion Turkish freestyle wrestler competing in the 125 kg division. Çakıroğlu graduated from the Ondokuz Mayıs University in Samsun with a degree in Physica ...

by a technical fall and two-time Olympian Aleksandr Shemarov of Belarus with a smooth 0–3 record, leaving him on the bottom of the pool and placing last out of 21 wrestlers in the final standings.

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Profile – International Wrestling Database
1982 births Living people Mongolian male sport wrestlers Olympic wrestlers for Mongolia Wrestlers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Ulaanbaatar 21st-century Mongolian people 20th-century Mongolian people {{Mongolia-wrestling-bio-stub