Mongolian Memory Athletes make triumph at Jiuduan World Cup

Oyundelger 2018-08-20 02:08

Sports

The Mongolian team won the first place, grabbing 19 medals out of total 36 and two cups out of three.

A Mongolian team of memory sport successfully participated in ‘Jiuduan World Cup-2018’, held in Beijing, China. The Mongolian team won the first place, grabbing 19 medals out of total 36 and two cups out of three. In the teen event, Mongolian memory athletes won all three places, topped with international grandmaster Lkhagvadulam.E. In the adult competition, international grandmaster Munkhshur.N won the first place. By the sum of scores, Mongolia’s athlete Munkhshur.N won the first place, followed by Simon Reinhard and Lkhagvadulam.E. In speed-card competition, Shijir-Erdene.B set the World Record by memorizing 52 cards within 14 seconds without mistakes. Mongolia’s team, coached by Asian champion Sengesamdan.U, consisted of world champion and Guinness record owner Munkhshur.N, Guinness record owner Enkhshur.N, world teen champion Lkhagvadulam.E, gold medal winner of Intellectual Olympiad Shijir-Erdene.B as well as others. 200 selected memory athletes from countries including Mongolia, China, Germany, Australia, and Italy competed in non-standard six categories for three days. So far, memory athletes of Mongolian Intellectual Academy have won 789 medals from 49 international competitions since 2008.