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Dorjsürengiin Sumiyaa
Mongolian judoka (born 1991) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dorjsürengiin Sumiyaa or Sumiya Dorjsuren (Mongolian: Доржсүрэнгийн Сумъяа, born 11 March 1991) is a Mongolian judoka.[1][2]
Dorjsürengiin competed in the 57 kg event at the 2012 Summer Olympics and lost in the first round.[3] At Astana 2015, she won her first World Championships medal, a bronze.[4] In the 2016 Olympics she won a silver medal in the women's 57 kg event and won gold at the 2017 World Championships in Budapest.[5] In the 2017 World Championships final, Dorjsürengiin defeated Tsukasa Yoshida who had beaten her in the Olympic final.[4] Dorjsürengiin won a bronze medal at the 2018 World Championships, after an unexpected loss in the semi-finals to Nekoda Smythe-Davis.[6] She also competed in the women's 57 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.[7]
Dorjsürengiin has also won multiple medals at the Asian Games (bronze in 2014 and 2018), Asian Championships (gold in 2016, bronze in 2012 and 2013) and is a four-time national champion.[1]
Dorjsürengiin's life was the subject of the 2017 Mongolian film White Blessing.[8]
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