How to Pronounce Jigjidiin Mönkhbat
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Jun 01, 1941 Erdenesant, Töv Province, Mongolia Died on 09 Apr 2018 (aged 76)
Olympic wrestler
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About Jigjidiin Mönkhbat
- Jigjidiin Mönkhbat (Mongolian: ????????? ???????; 1 June 1941 – 9 April 2018) was a Mongolian wrestler.
- At the 1968 Summer Olympics he won the silver medal in the men's Freestyle Middleweight category, behind gold medalist Boris Michail Gurevich of the Soviet Union and ahead of bronze medalist Prodan Gardzhev of Bulgaria.
- He was the father of professional sumo wrestler Hakuho Sho, who holds the top rank of Yokozuna in that sport. Mönkhbat was a Titan in Mongolian wrestling, a top rank in the sport, with six Naadam championship wins (1963–1967, 1974).
- Five times were in a row, a feat achieved by only two other athletes in the modern history of Mongolian wrestling (since 1922).
- His name Monkhbat means "Eternal firm" in the Mongolian language.
- His son Hakuho regards his six Nadaam championships as the equivalent of 36 tournament championships in sumo (as sumo tournaments are held six times a year) and used that as motivation to keep going even after passing Taiho's record of 32 championships.
- He also hopes to appear at an Olympics like his father, even though sumo is not an Olympic sport, by performing a dohyo-iri (ring-entering ceremony) at the opening of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
