| Munkhbayar Dorjsuren | |
| Fullname: | Munkhbayar Dorjsuren (as German citizen) |
| Birth Name: | Dorjsürengiin Mönkhbayar |
| Birth Date: | 9 July 1969 |
| Birth Place: | Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia |
| Height: | 1.67 m |
| Country: | |
| Sport: | Women's air pistol |
| Event: | 10 metre, 25 metre |
| Club: | Sport Gemeinschaft Grafing |
| Coach: | Peter Kraneis |
| Headercolor: | lightsteelblue |
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Munkhbayar Dorjsuren (born Dorjsürengiin Mönkhbayar, Mongolian: Доржсүрэнгийн Мөнхбаяр; born July 9, 1969) is a Mongolian-German sport shooter. She was born in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, but moved to Germany and became a German citizen. She is the 1992 Olympic bronze medalist in the Women's 25 metre pistol for Mongolia and the 2008 Olympic bronze medalist in the same event for Germany. She competed in the 25 metre and 10 metre air pistol events.
Dorjsuren has competed at six Summer Olympic Games. She represented Mongolia at the 1992 Summer Olympics, at the 1996 Summer Olympics, and at the 2000 Summer Olympics. At the 1992 Summer Olympics she won the bronze medal in the women's 25 metre pistol category. She won the 1998 ISSF World Shooting Championships in 10 metre air pistol for Mongolia.
She represented Germany at the 2004 Summer Olympics, at the 2008 Summer Olympics and at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She won the 2002 ISSF World Shooting Championships in 25 metre pistol while representing Germany. Dorjsuren won gold in the Milan leg of the 2009 ISSF World Cup, 25 metre pistol category.[1]
she lived in Munich, Germany.[2]
In July 2022, the National Rifle Association of India appointed Dorjsuren as the Indian pistol team's foreign coach.[3] She was the coach for the Indian team that won the bronze medal in the mixed 10 metre air pistol event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.[4]
After her participation in Sydney Olympics in 2000, Munkhbayar D. moved to Germany and in 2002, she became a German citizen. In June 2013, she requested to become Mongolian citizen again.[5]
| Olympic results | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Event | 1992 | 1996 | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | ||
| align=left | 25 metre pistol | Bronze 584+95 | 15th 576 | 25th 573 | 5th 583+101.6 | Bronze 587+202.2 | 12th 582 | |
| align=left | 10 metre air pistol | 21st 376 | 21st 377 | 36th 368 | 6th 385+96.9 | 24th 379 | 25th 378 | |