Mongolia won two gold medals and 11 in total at last month’s World Sambo Championships in South Korea. This was enough for second place in the overall standings behind the sport’s dominant force, Russia.

Mongolia is officially one of the countries to have achieved high-level development of Sambo wrestling, ranked by the number of successful athletes. Mongolian Sambo wrestlers have been taking part in continental and world championships since 1973 without interruption and have given birth to 37 world champions. Mongolian athletes won 57 gold, 21 silver and 28 bronze medals at continental and global championships.

Mongolian Sambo Federation boss D.Gerel has pledged to further develop the sport in the country after winning the Best President Prize at the Burte Chono sports awards.