Tuvshinbayar Naidan ( born 1 June 1984) is a Mongolian former professional

judoka is an unarmed gendai budō, modern Japanese martial art, combat sport, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyc ...

. 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 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

silver medalist and two-time (

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

) 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.

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. 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, by defeating

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...

judo is an unarmed gendai budō, modern Japanese martial art, combat sport, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyc ...

ka Askhat Zhitkeyev (according to the old rules of judo, where it is allowed to double and single leg takedowns, with the legs grabbed by the hands, similar to a

freestyle wrestling Freestyle wrestling is a style of wrestling. It is one of two styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic Games, along with Greco-Roman wrestling, Greco-Roman. scholastic wrestling, High school wrestling and men's collegiate wrestling in the U ...

). On 14 August 2008, he was inducted as the state honoured athlete of

Mongolia Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south and southeast. It covers an area of , with a population of 3.5 million, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by po ...

as well as a hero of labour. At the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012, were an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

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. Also, at the 2017 World Championships, he won a bronze medal, becoming both an Olympics and World Championships multimedalist.

Mongolian wrestling career record

Assault and jailing

In April 2021, Tüvshinbayar was jailed for 20 days following a drunken assault on Erdenebileg Enkhbat, who was a childhood friend. 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.

References

External links

* * * 1984 births Living people People from Bulgan Province Mongolian male judoka Olympic judoka for Mongolia Judoka at the 2008 Summer Olympics Judoka at the 2012 Summer Olympics Judoka at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Mongolia Olympic silver medalists for Mongolia Olympic medalists in judo Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Asian Games medalists in judo Judoka at the 2006 Asian Games Judoka at the 2010 Asian Games Judoka at the 2014 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for Mongolia Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games Judoka at the 2018 Asian Games Mongolian criminals Sportspeople convicted of crimes {{Mongolia-judo-bio-stub