Headercolor: | 2024 World Champion |
Native Name: | Бавуудоржийн Баасанхүү |
Birth Date: | 1999 11, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Mörön, Khövsgöl, Mongolia |
Country: | Mongolia |
Weight Class: | 48 kg |
Olympics Rank: | 2 |
Olympics Year: | 2024 |
Olympics Weight: | Women's 48 kg |
Worlds Rank: | 1 |
Worlds Year: | 2024 |
Worlds Weight: | Women's 48 kg |
Regionals Type: | AS |
Regionals Rank: | 1 |
Regionals Year: | 2024 |
Updated: | 28 July 2024 |
Bavuudorjiin Baasankhüü (mn|Бавуудоржийн Баасанхүү; born 26 November 1999) is a Mongolian judoka who competes in the women's 48kg division.[1] She won silver medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics and the gold medal at the 2024 World Judo Championships held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. She is also a gold medalist at the 2024 Asian Championships.
Baasankhüü's first major international success was the 2022 Paris Grand Slam where she won the silver medal, having lost to the Japanese Natsumi Tsunoda.[2] [3] She had reached the round of 16 stage at the 2022 and 2023 World Championships. At the 2022 Asian Games held in September 2023, Baasankhüü finished in seventh place.[2]
Baasankhüü defeated South Korean Lee Hye-kyeong to win the gold medal at the 2024 Asian Championships and was victorious at the 2024 Dushanbe Grand Slam. At the 2024 World Championships in May, she reached the final, which she won against the Italian Assunta Scutto with a waza-ari by immobilization following a failed attack by Scutto at the very end of the fight.[4] [5] She won the silver medal in the -48 kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, having again lost to Tsunoda.[6]