Birth Date: | 11 March 1991 |
Birth Place: | Baruunturuun, Uvs, Mongolia |
Height: | 1.62 m |
Weight Class: | 57 kg |
Club: | Khilchin |
Worlds Rank: | 1 |
Worlds Year: | 2017 |
Worlds Weight: | Women's 57 kg |
Regionals Type: | AS |
Regionals Rank: | 1 |
Regionals Year: | 2016 |
Olympics Rank: | 2 |
Olympics Year: | 2016 |
Olympics Weight: | Women's 57 kg |
Updated: | 23 May 2023 |
Dorjsürengiin Sumiyaa or Sumiya Dorjsuren (Mongolian: Доржсүрэнгийн Сумъяа, born 11 March 1991) is a Mongolian judoka.[1] [2]
Dorjsürengiin competed in the 57 kg event at the 2012 Summer Olympics and lost in the first round.[3] At Astana 2015, she won her first World Championships medal, a bronze.[4] In the 2016 Olympics she won a silver medal in the women's 57 kg event and won gold at the 2017 World Championships in Budapest.[5] In the 2017 World Championships final, Dorjsürengiin defeated Tsukasa Yoshida who had beaten her in the Olympic final. Dorjsürengiin won a bronze medal at the 2018 World Championships, after an unexpected loss in the semi-finals to Nekoda Smythe-Davis.[6] She also competed in the women's 57 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.[7]
Dorjsürengiin has also won multiple medals at the Asian Games (bronze in 2014 and 2018), Asian Championships (gold in 2016, bronze in 2012 and 2013) and is a four-time national champion.
Dorjsürengiin's life was the subject of the 2017 Mongolian film White Blessing.[8]