Marathon athlete B.Munkhzaya qualifies for World Championship and Tokyo 2020 Olympics

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2019-02-21 15:46:52

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. IM B.Munkhzaya has taken the 6th place at the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon, finishing the race in 2 hours 35 minutes and 44 seconds.

With this achievement, she qualifies for the 2019 World Championships in Athletics in Qatar as well as the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.


Holding the national record for the distances 3 km, 5 km, 10 km, 21 km and 42 km, she is the first Mongolian and the second Asian athlete to win a gold medal from the Taipei International Marathon in Taiwan in 2017.