Ulaanbaatar, October 11, 2023 /MONTSAME/. Hangzhou, the eastern city of the People’s Republic of China, rounded off the 19th Asian Games "Hangzhou 2022" on October 8, 2023, with a colorful and "joy"-themed Closing Ceremony after hosting the continental sporting extravaganza which organizers hailed as "one of the finest" ever. 

Mongolia sent its biggest-ever team of 403 athletes, 118 coaches, and 520 staff members to the Asiad. It was the seventh-largest contingent out of 45 countries participating in the Games. 

Mongolian athletes achieved remarkable success, securing 21 medals: three gold medals, five silver medals, and 13 bronze medals in the ten sports competitions of the Games, namely, judo, esports, archery, shooting, basketball (3x3), boxing, wrestling, jiu-jitsu, kurash, and cycling road. 

This outstanding performance placed Mongolia 22nd in the medal standing by medal color and 15th by total number of medals. 

Mongolia has participated in the Asian Games 12 times, starting with the seventh Asian Games in Tehran in 1974, and won a total of 182 medals in 12 sports competitions, including 28 gold, 51 silver, and 104 bronze medals. 

On October 6, 2023, International Master of Sports of Mongolia Tulga Tumur-Ochir took home the gold medal in the men’s 65 kg category. There is one thing that Tulga calls a God's gift to him -- underhook, the deadly move he has mastered to win wrestling bouts. 

It's a move that needs timing, accuracy, and perfect execution, combined with power to be perfect. Tulga has performed the move numerous times in his career and won. But what he did on October 6 at the Asian Games was perfection. An underhook that brought down Asian champion Rahman AMOUZAD (IRI) in the 65kg gold-medal bout was truly clean.

Once he got the four points, T. Tulga continued to punish Amouzad for weak defense from par terre, getting three gut wrenches to win the 65kg gold medal 11-1. This was Tulga's first gold at a championship or Games at the senior level. 

Furthermore, in the men’s 57 kg category, Nasanbuyan Narmandakh won a bronze medal as he defeated Bekzat Almaz Uulu from Kyrgyzstan with a score of 8-2. 

On October 7, 2023, Mongolian archer B. Otgonbold topped the recurve men's podium at the Asian Games, becoming the first Mongolian to earn the Asian Games recurve champion title in history. 

Mongolia's team sports achievements reached a new milestone with the men's 3x3 basketball team winning bronze, the women's 3x3 basketball team capturing silver, and the esports team claiming silver at the Asian Games. 

After a 33-year gap since 1990, S. Jambaljamts earned Mongolia a bronze medal in the cycling road competition at the "Hangzhou 2022."