Ice climbers become Asian champions

Sports
unurzul@montsame.mn
2020-01-13 14:43:31

Ulaanbaatar/MONTSAME/. Mongolian team grabbed two gold and one bronze medals at the series of UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup 2020, which took place at the same time with UIAA Ice Climbing Asian Championships Cheongsong 2020 in S.Korea on January 10-12.

In the continental championship, international master N.Kherlen competed in the men’s ‘speed’ contest, winning a gold medal with a total of 17.45 points, whilst sports’ master B. Ariunbayar grabbed another gold medal in the women’s ‘speed’ contest with 24.06 points.

D. Baasandorj also won a bronze medal in speed with 20.95 points. D.Otgonkhuu and Ch.Mandakhbayar took 8th and 16th places respectively.   

The tournament was attended by 105 athletes from 19 countries.