Olympic judo champion and former president of the Mongolian National Olympic Committee (MNOC) Naidangiin Tyuvshinbayar has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for murder.
A Khan-Uul district court in Ulaanbaatar sentenced Tyuvshinbayar to prison for killing a childhood friend after a year-long trial, Sonin news agency reported.
On April 2, 2021, Tyuvshinbayar attacked allegedly intoxicated judo comrade Erdenebileg Enkhbat with a heavy object, causing the latter to be hospitalized with head injuries and later to die.
Tyuvshinbayar, 38, won a gold medal in judo in the 100kg category in Beijing in 2008, then won silver in London in 2012. The gold medal was the first for Mongolia at the Olympics .
Source : MatchTV
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