Mongolia Sport Badges

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W 35 -- Spartikad of the Pupil, 1968

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W 41 -- Industrial Spartakad, 1961

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W 40 -- Spartakad of the City Handicrafts

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W 59 -- The Champion of the Army

Also cross-listed as C 40.

Edited February 4, 2007 by Ed_Haynes

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W 02 -- Meritorious Sport Trainer

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W 55 -- Chess

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W 56 -- Chess, 1963

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W 57 -- Wrestling, 1965

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W 58 -- Wrestling, 1967

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W 51 -- 1st Spartakad of the Worker Youth, 1957

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W 48 -- Spartakad of Trade Unions, 1962

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W 12a, W 12c, W 12e -- Wrestling Badges, until 1992

These wrestling badges are complex and require an understanding of Mongolian wrestling, which I don't have. But I have figured out a few things.

1- There are no weight classes.

2- It is all single-elimination.

3- The badges are awarded for competitions at the annual nandaam celebrations. (In Ulanbaatar or everywhere? Maybe the local nandaam give rise to the provincial wrestling badges and these are the national ones.)

4- There are several ranks:

-- Supreme Champions ("Everywhere Celebrated Whole Ocean Sacred Giant") -- Hero of Labor material?

-- Giants -- victors in several nandaam ("several"?)

-- ??? -- nandaam victor (guess)

-- Lions -- winners in 8th and 9th rounds

-- Elephants -- winners in 6th and 7th rounds

-- Falcons -- winners in the 5th round

-- Hawk (guess)

5- I think there are several ranks missing from this list?

Shown (as in Battushig) are the Giant (W 12a), Elephant (W 12c), and Falcon (W 12e) badges. Missing are the Lion (what seems to have been left open in Battushig as W 12b) and one other unknown badge (W 12c). Post-2004 badges are known in the rank of "Hawk", so where does this rank fit in and what does it signify? It would seem there ought to be something between Giant and Lion?

I'll be trying to get a lot of this clarified.

See also: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=6987

And, even though it is Wikipedia, see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_wrestling

Edited December 5, 2006 by Ed_Haynes

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W 53 -- 80 Years of Sport

Characteristic of so many of the new badges, 57 mm and 49 g. Missing (oh, horror!) one of its fake "jewels".

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W 36 -- 30 Years of ???

A fascinating badge. Chinese on reverse?!?!?!?

Getting translated.

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W 37 -- Volleyball Championship of the Fraternal Armies, 1961

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W 38 -- The Triathlon of the Fraternal Armies, 1963

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W 20 and W 21 -- Racing

A useful comparison of the two, with all prizes going to the first, earlier, smaller, and high-quality badge.

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W 10 -- Mongolia

Just 20 mm.

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W 15 -- Archer

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W 44 -- 3rd Spartakad

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W 26 -- Referee Badges

I am now a bit confused by these. Showing below W 26a, W 26c, W 26d, and W 26e (donot, yet, have a W 26b). I am struck by the smaller size of the 2nd class W 26d. Help??

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W 11 -- Sport

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W 30 -- 1958 Spartikade

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W 34a -- Badge of the "Ready for Labor and Defence" 1st class

There must be a 2nd class out there?

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W 42 -- Spartakade of the Province Young Men