Three judokas top IJF rankings

Sports
en_khuder@montsame.mn
2016-02-12 16:43:40

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ An international master of sports and Asian Games gold medalist D.Tomorkhuleg has topped again the latest rankings of the International Judo Federation (IJF) in the men’s -66 kg category.

The latest IJF rankings of world judokas were released on February 8 just after results of the Paris Grand Slam.

Surpassing a Ukrainian judoka Georgii Zantaraia, the Mongolian judoka D.Tomorkhuleg collected 2,325 points after adding 300 points to it thanks to grabbing a silver medal in the Paris Grand Slam.

Having claimed silver medals with 300 Olympic qualification points each, two women judokas--M.Urantsetseg (48 kg) and D.Sumiya (57 kg)--kept leadership the rankings in their divisions. They had 3,310 and 2,600 points, respectively.

No change has taken place for the ranking of a 2014 World champion G.Boldbaatar, keeping his 3rd place with 1,978 points in the men’s -60 kg division. In this category, D.Amartuvshin (1,392 points) stayed at 11th place. This division’s leadership position was replaced by a South Korean judoka Kim Won Jin who grabbed a bronze medal in the Paris Grand Slam.

An Olympic bronze medalist S.Nyam-Ochir still kept his 10th in the men’s -73kg with 1,246 points, and his countryman G.Odbayar went up to 14th place, having 1,090 points in the same division. L.Otgonbaatar IMS fell into 11th place in the men’s -90kg category.

A State Honored Sportswoman Ts.Munkhzaya (woman’s 63 kg) maintained the seventh place with 1,830 points.

Other Mongolian judokas were not ranked within tenth place by the IJF rankings.