Erdenebatyn Bekhbayar (; born 13 August 1992) is a

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who competes in the 57 kg division. He won a gold medal at the 2018 Asian Games and bronze medals at the 2015 and 2017 world championships. He competed at the

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, where he was eliminated in the round of 32 by Adama Diatta. Bekhbayar took up wrestling in 2006. He was named the 2015 Mongolian Male Athlete of the Year.

World Championships Results

1. The 2015 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 57 kg * Erdenebat Bekhbayar (MGL) vs Aleksei Baskakov (EST), W 10–0; * Erdenebat Bekhbayar (MGL) vs Ghenadie Tulbea (MON), W 12–1; * Erdenebat Bekhbayar (MGL) vs Yuki Takahashi (JPN), W 2–1; * Erdenebat Bekhbayar (MGL) vs Vladimer Khinchegashvili (GEO), L 2–10; * Erdenebat Bekhbayar (MGL) vs Artas Sanaa (KAZ), W 5–1. Medalists: * Gold medal - Vladimer Khinchegashvili of Georgia; * Silver medal - Hassan Rahimi of Iran; * Bronze medal - Erdenebat Bekhbayar of Mongolia and Viktor Lebedev of Russia. 2. The 2017 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 57 kg * Erdenebat Bekhbayar (MGL) vs Ulukbek Zholdoshbekov (KGZ), W 12–0; * Erdenebat Bekhbayar (MGL) vs

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(TUR), W 7–0; * Erdenebat Bekhbayar (MGL) vs

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(JPN), L 4-4; * Erdenebat Bekhbayar (MGL) vs

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(IND), W 10–0; * Erdenebat Bekhbayar (MGL) vs Vladimir Dubov (BUL), W 9–2.; Medalists: * Gold medal - Yuki Takahashi of Japan; * Silver medal - Thomas Gilman of United States; * Bronze medal - Andriy Yatsenko of Ukraine and Erdenebat Bekhbayar of Mongolia.

Results of Asian Games

The 2018 Asian Games - Men's freestyle 57 kg * Gold medal - Erdenebat Bekhbayar of Mongolia; * Silver medal - Kang Kum-song of North Korea; * Bronze medal -

of Japan and Reza Atri of Iran.

Other facts

Bekhbayar also beat another strong opponents: the 2018 Pan American Champion and the 2017 U23 World Champion Reineri Andreu Ortega (the 2018 World Cup), the 2019 European Games champion Mahir Amiraslanov (the 2019 World Wrestling Championships), the 2019 Russian Championships winner Ramiz GamzatovVideo. 2019 Alany Tournament. Erdenebatyn_Bekhbayar (Mgl) vs Ramiz Gamzatov (Dagestan)
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