Former World number one D.Tumurkhuleg and Grand Slam Paris winner are to compete for the United Arab Emirates. Also N.Dagvasuren who won bronze at the Grand Slam in Tokyo will join Davaadorj. Heavyweight and Olympian T.Battulga is the third man to switch to the UAE. Possible in March the trio want to compete for the Emirates. If they do not make that deadline – their aim is to compete in May. With these strong Mongolian athletes the UAE anticipates being on the ‘market’ and having many new opportunities.

Mongolian judoka D.Tumurkhuleg won various events such as the Grand Prix in 2015 in Mongolia. D.Tumurkhuleg took the world Number 1 position U66kg and was double medallist at World Junior Championships. He won the Asian Games in 2014 in Incheon, the Grand Slam of Paris in 2015 and finished 7th at the 2016 Olympic Games. He won 30 World Cup medals.

Another Mongolian – D.Nyamsuren has been winning World Cup medals since 2012. He won bronze at the Grand Prix in Jeju in 2014 and the Grand Prix medals in 2015 in Tbilisi and Ulaanbaatar. D.Nyamsuren won Asian Games bronze U81kg in 2014. In 2016 he won the Grand Prix Ulaanbaatar . He took bronze at the Grand Prix in Qingdao in 2016, silver at the Grand Prix in Tashkent in 2017 and bronze at the Grand Slam in Tokyo in 2017.

T.Battulga won bronze at the World Junior Championships in 2008. He won three bronze at three Asian Championships. T.Battulga won the World Cup in Ulaanbaatar three times and Tashkent in 2014. He collected 19 World Cup medals such as silver at the Grand Slam in Paris in 2013 and bronze in 2012. He was flag bearer for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. More recently in 2017, he took bronze at the Grand Slam in Ekaterinburg in 2017.