Referee from Mongolia Enkhtsetseg Turbat chosen to officiate at Tokyo Olympics
AKIPRESS.COM - The International Judo Federation (IJF) has announced the referees chosen to officiate at the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics.
Sixteen referees have been chosen for the Olympics and IJF referee from Mongolia Enkhtsetseg Turbat is included in the official list and thus she has become the first female referee in the history of Mongolian sports to officiate at the Olympic Games, Montsame reports.
Judo referee for Olympics T.Enkhtsetseg has officiated at 34 tournaments organized by the IJF since 2017 aside from “Budapest 2017”, “Baku-2018” and “Tokyo-2019” World Senior Judo Championships and she was awarded with the Best Referee Prize at Burte Chono Festival in 2018 held by the Mongolian National Olympic Committee.
Mongolia’s Altai Holding a conglomerate of ten companies, including robust and leading companies in various sectors headed by a western-educated, young, and innovative leader Battushig Batbold has been at the forefront of change in the fast-growing Asian democracy in the last twenty plus years.
Altai Holding was created in 1992, at the time of Mongolia’s transition from socialism to a market economy, by Battushig’s father Sukhbaatar Batbold, a shrewd entrepreneur and a charismatic politician, who later served as the country’s 26th prime minister from 2009 to 2012. The company started in the traditional cashmere industry as the first privately-owned trader of Mongolia’s cashmere on the foreign market as well as one of the few local hospitality businesses through the Chinggis Khaan Hotel, and has since expanded to modern brick-and-mortar retail and e-commerce, hospitality, telecommunications, and entertainment. In the early 1990’s, the elder Batbold, Sukhbaatar Batb