Odbayar Ganbaatar Judoka

Odbayar Ganbaatar

Country:Mongolia
Born:20 August 1989 (30 years)
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Odbayar Ganbaatar from Mongolia took gold at the Grand Slam in Baku in 2017. He won world bronze in 2017 in Budapest. He won 13 World Cup medals since 2010 such as bronze in Havana in 2016. Ganbaatar won 5 medals in Ulaanbaatar and Grand Prix medals in Abu Dhabi, Qingdao and Tbilisi. Ganbaatar won medals at Asian Championships in 2015 and Asian Games silver in 2014. He finished fifth at the 2015 and 2018 World Championships. He won the Champions League with Sporting Clube Portugal Lisbon in 2018

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First ever European club title for Sporting CP Lisbon

7 Dec 2018 17:40

Sporting Clube Lisbon have won the first edition of the Champions League. In Bucharest the strong Portuguese team captured the gold after three excellent bronze medals over the last year, but this medal tops it. Against Yewara Newa, the defending champion from Russia the men from Lisbon won by 3-2 as world champion Nikoloz Sherazadishvili won a crucial key contest. Read more

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An Changrim breaks the Japanese barrier for the first since 2009

22 Sep 2018 16:15

What a fantastic World Championships final U73kg, not just on paper as world number one Soichi Hashimoto and An Changrim (7) of Korea went for their World Championships final. The first final for An, with Hashimoto perhaps as favourite but An was the man in form. Read more

Men U73kg many casualties but An and Hashimoto stable

22 Sep 2018 13:15

Since 2010 the category U73kg has been dominated by Japan with consecutive world champions in Akimoto, Nakaya, Ono, Nakaya, Ono and Hashimoto. The last one can finally make the double. Read more

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Mongolian maestro Ganbaatar follows Worlds medal with Abu Dhabi gold

27 Oct 2017 18:50

World bronze medallist Ganbaatar Odbayar of Mongolia has now won four medals from his last four events and is arguably the form judoka in the weight category. Ganbaatar won Grand Slam gold for the first time in May before claiming his first Worlds Championships medal in August and has now returned to the top of a Grand Slam podium. Read more

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Soichi Hashimoto claims expected gold medal U73kg

30 Aug 2017 19:15

Japan captured another gold medal, their fifth in total and eight medals in total counting juist three days of fighting in Budapest. Soichi Hashimoto was the expected winner, and despite 73 judoka in this category U73kg, still the favourites were able to win the medal. Ganbaatar Odbayar was more of a surprise medal for Mongolia, another one from this relative new judo country. Read more