Jigjidiin Mönkhbat

Jigjidiin Mönkhbat (Mongolian: Жигжидийн Мөнхбат; 1 June 1941 – 9 April 2018) 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.[1] 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.

Jigjidiin Mönkhbat

Medal record
Men's Freestyle Wrestling
Representing  Mongolia
Olympic Games
	1968 Mexico City	Middleweight
World Championships
	1967 New Delhi	87 kg

Mönkhbat was a Titan in Mongolian wrestling, a top rank in the sport, with six Naadam championship wins (1963–1967, 1974). Five times were in a row, a feat achieved by only two other athletes in the modern history of Mongolian wrestling (since 1922). 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 (as sumo tournaments are held six times a year) and used that as motivation to keep going even after passing Taihō's record of 32 championships.[2] He also hopes to appear at an Olympics like his father, even though sumo is not an Olympic sport, by performing a dohyo-iri (ring-entering ceremony) at the opening of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.[2]