Khaidavyn Altankhuyag

Khaidavyn Altankhuyag
Personal information
NationalityMongolian
Born (1946-10-16) 16 October 1946
Height168 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Weight60 kg (132 lb)
Boxing career
Lightweight
Medal record
Asian Championships
Gold medal – first place1971 TehranLightweight
Gold medal – first place1975 YokohamaLightweight

Khaidavyn Altankhuyag (Хайдавын Алтанхуяг; born 16 October 1946, Nömrög, Zavkhan Province) is a Mongolian boxer. A two-time Asian champion, oldest honored boxer of Mongolia, a consultant coach of the Mongolian Boxing Federation, and a people′s teacher, he is known as "Golden Swallow" who wrote the history of Mongolian boxing. Altankhuyag also successfully worked as a coach in China, developing friendship between the boxing federations of Mongolia and China. Altankhuyag won a gold medal at the 1970 Spartakiad of socialist countries' police forces in Irkutsk, USSR. This was Mongolia's first international achievement in boxing. He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the 1976 Summer Olympics.[1] At the 1976 Summer Olympics, he lost to Tsvetan Tsvetkov of Bulgaria.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Khaidavyn Altankhuyag". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2018.