Enkhbatyn Badar-Uugan

Enkhbatyn Badar-Uugan

Medal record
Men's Boxing
Representing  Mongolia
Olympic Games
	2008 Beijing	Bantamweight
Asian Games
	2006 Doha	Bantamweight
World Amateur Championships
	2007 Chicago	Bantamweight
Asian Championships
	2007 Ulaanbaatar	Bantamweight

Enkhbatyn Badar-Uugan (Mongolian: Энхбатын Бадар-Ууган; born June 3, 1985 in Ulaanbaatar) is a retired boxer from Mongolia who became the first Olympic boxing champion from his country when he won the gold medal in the Bantamweight (-54 kg) division at the 2008 Olympics. He almost was the first Mongolian to win Olympic gold in any sport but was beaten by Judoka Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar by a couple of days.

Career

At the 2006 Asian Games winning the bronze medal in a lost bout against Korea's Han Soon Chul 19-29-.^[1]

At the world championships 2007 he won Silver when he beat Englishman Joe Murray 20-11 but lost in the finals to Sergey Vodopyanov 14-16.

In 2007, he won a gold medal at Asian Senior Boxing Championship, Ulaanbaatar.

Badar-Uugan fought for Mongolia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. American magazine Sports Illustrated picked him as the favorite to win Mongolia's first ever Olympic gold medal.,^[2] which, however, was won by Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar, who competed earlier in the games.

World Amateur Championships results

2007

• Defeated Clive Atwell (Guyana) 25-8
• Defeated Vittorio Parrinello (Italy) 19-14
• Defeated David Oltvanyi (Hungary) 17-5
• Defeated Héctor Manzanilla (Venezuela) RSCI 3
• Defeated Joe Murray (England) 20-11
• Lost to Sergey Vodopyanov (Russia) 14-16

Olympic Games results

2008

• Defeated Óscar Valdez (Mexico) 15-4
• Defeated John Joe Nevin (Ireland) 9-2
• Defeated Khumiso Ikgopoleng (Botswana) 15-2
• Defeated Veaceslav Gojan (Moldova) 15-2
• Defeated Yankiel León (Cuba) 16-5

References

External links

• Olympic profile