Mongolian judoka takes bronze

Hey, it’s a medal, and he didn’t have to sack any cities to get it.
Mongolian bronze

Mongolia’s Kashbaatar Tsgaanbaatar, top, beats Spain’s Kenji Uematsu to win the bronze medal in the Judo Men’s extra light event at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2004. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

This entry was written by Robert Koehler, posted on August 18, 2004 at 4:57 pm, filed under East and Central Asia, Mongolia. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

5 Comments

  1. dda your flag
    Posted August 18, 2004 at 6:11 pm | Permalink

    Spain?€™s Kenji Uematsu???????????
    Paella AND sushi?

    BTW doesn’t baatar mean “hero”?
    In which case Kashbaatar Tsgaanbaatar is a double hero or sumfin’…

  2. haisan your flag
    Posted August 18, 2004 at 9:01 pm | Permalink

    Mongolians don’t have a very deep well of names they go to. Hence all the Bolds and Batbayars, etc.

    Anyhow, Mongolians winning Judo. Mongolians kicking butt in Sumo. I wonder if this is just a Japanese superiority thing they have, or if we’ll soon see Mongolians dominating in ssireum, Greco-Roman, and WWE.

  3. Tony your flag
    Posted August 19, 2004 at 12:39 am | Permalink

    An ethnic Japanese Spanish person doesn’t seem so odd to me. In the Korean language program I attended, there was an ethnic Korean guy from the Canary Islands. Go figure.

  4. tiim your flag
    Posted August 19, 2004 at 9:15 am | Permalink

    “Tsagaanbaatar” means “white knight” or “white hero” in Mongolian.

  5. qwerty27 your flag
    Posted August 20, 2004 at 4:23 pm | Permalink

    Way to go!

    But thta picture has to be changed. It looks like Spain’s athlete is getting his annual prostate exam the hard way!

    Welcome to Tsagaanbaatr’s Proctology Clinic, how may I help you today?

    OUCH!

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