Jigjidiin Mönkhbat
Jigjidiin Mönkhbat was a Mongolian wrestler. At the 1968 Summer Olympics he won the silver medal in the men's Freestyle Middleweight category, behind gold medalist Boris Michail Gurevich of the Soviet Union and ahead of bronze medalist Prodan Gardzhev of Bulgaria.
His results in the olympic tournament: win - 4, draw - 2, loss - 0. He was the father of professional sumo wrestler Hakuhō Shō, who holds the top rank of Yokozuna in that sport.
Mönkhbat was a Titan in Mongolian wrestling, a top rank in the sport, with six Naadam championship wins. Five times were in a row, a feat achieved by only two other athletes in the modern history of Mongolian wrestling. His name Monkhbat means "Eternal firm" in the Mongolian language.
His son Hakuhō regards his six Nadaam championships as the equivalent of 36 tournament championships in sumo and used that as motivation to keep going even after passing Taihō's record of 32 championships. He also hopes to appear at an Olympics like his father, even though sumo is not an Olympic sport, by performing a dohyo-iri at the opening of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
