Mongolian judoka Ts.Tsogtbaatar won the gold medal in the men’s -73kg at the Judo World Championships on Saturday. Tsogtbaatar defeated Japanese Soichi Hashimoto in the final, becoming the fifth world champion in the history of Mongolian judo.

In the preliminaries, he defeated Israeli Levin, the only one capable of surprising the Mongolian with an early waza-ari, Romanian Sulca and then Canadian Margelidon. In his semi-final was the Italian Manuel Lombardo, former number one in the ranking.

An Olympic medallist in Tokyo, Tsend-Ochir leads the new Mongolian generation, a young team, highly prepared, highly motivated and he is its greatest exponent. His style is the opposite of Hashimoto’s because Ts.Tsogtbaatar is one of those who attacks and always looks for ippon.