మంగోలియా: కూర్పుల మధ్య తేడాలు

In its 2013 World Press Freedom Index report, [[Reporters Without Borders]] classified the media environment as 98th out of 179, with 1st being most free.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.rsf.org/press-freedom-index-2013,1054.html|title=2013 World Press Freedom Index: Dashed Hopes After Spring|publisher=Reporters Without Borders|year=2013}}</ref>

 

[[File:Naadamceremony2006.jpg|thumb|right|[[Naadam]] is the largest summer celebration]]

The main national festival is [[Naadam]], which has been organised for centuries and takes place over three days in the summer, consists of three Mongolian traditional sports, [[archery]], horse-racing (over long stretches of open country, not the short racing around a track practiced in the West), and wrestling, traditionally recognized as the Three Manly Games of Nadaam. In modern-day Mongolia, Nadaam is held on July 11 to July 13 in the honour of the anniversaries of the National Democratic Revolution and foundation of the Great Mongol State.

Another very popular activity called Shagaa is the "flicking" of sheep ankle bones at a target several feet away, using a flicking motion of the finger to send the small bone flying at targets and trying to knock the target bones off the platform. At Naadam, this contest is very popular and develops a serious audience among older Mongolians.

[[File:Three Naadam riders.jpg|thumb|left|Riders during [[Naadam]] [[festival]]]]

[[Horse culture in Mongolia|Horse riding]] is especially central to Mongolian culture. The long-distance races that are showcased during Naadam festivals are one aspect of this, as is the popularity of trick riding. One example of trick riding is the legend that the Mongolian military hero [[Damdin Sükhbaatar]] scattered coins on the ground and then picked them up while riding a horse at full gallop.

[[Mongolian wrestling]] is the most popular of all Mongol sports. It is the highlight of the Three Manly Games of Naadam. Historians claim that Mongol-style wrestling originated some seven thousand years ago. Hundreds of wrestlers from different cities and aimags around the country take part in the national wrestling competition.

[[Freestyle wrestling]] has been practised since 1958 in Mongolia.<ref>[http://wrestling.mn/page/show/19 Монголын чөлөөт бөхийн спортын товч түүх]</ref> Mongolian freestyle wrestlers have won the first and the most Olympic medals of Mongolia.

 

[[Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar]] won Mongolia's first ever Olympic gold medal in the men's 100-kilogram class of judo.<ref>{{cite news| url = http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/08/15/mongolia.medal/index.html| title = Mongolia wins first-ever gold medal| author = Mark Bixler| publisher = CNN.com/world sport| date = 2008-08-15| accessdate = 2008-08-16|archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20080822162813/http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/08/15/mongolia.medal/index.html |archivedate = August 22, 2008}}</ref>

[[Amateur boxing]] has been practised in Mongolia since 1948.<ref>[http://www.olloo.mn/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=108135 Д.Батмєнх: Анх дээлтэй, монгол гуталтай бокс тоглодог байлаа]</ref> Mongolian olympic boxing national team was founded in 1960. Communist government of Mongolia banned boxing during the period 1964-1967 but the government ended ban on boxing soon. [[Professional boxing]] began in Mongolia in the 1990s.

[[Mongolia national basketball team|Mongolia's basketball team]] enjoyed some success recently, especially at the [[Basketball at the East Asian Games|East Asian Games]].

[[Association football]] is also played in Mongolia. The [[Mongolia national football team|Mongolian national team]] began playing national games again during the 1990s; but has not yet qualified for a major international tournament. The [[Mongolia Premier League]] is the top domestic competition.

Several Mongolian women have excelled in [[shooting sports|pistol shooting]]: [[Otryadyn Gündegmaa]] is a silver medalist of the 2008 Olympic Games, [[Munkhbayar Dorjsuren]] is a double world champion and Olympic bronze medal winner (now representing [[Germany]]), while [[Tsogbadrakhyn Mönkhzul]] is, as of May 2007, ranked third in the world in the [[25 metre pistol]] event.<ref>{{cite web | title = World ranking: 25 m Pistol Women | url = http://www.issf-shooting.org/update/worldranking.asp?mode=allbyevent&event=SP | publisher = [[International Shooting Sport Federation]] | date = 29 May 2007 | accessdate = 4 June 2007|archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070425032544/http://www.issf-shooting.org/update/worldranking.asp?mode=allbyevent&event=SP |archivedate = 25 April 2007}}</ref>

Mongolian [[sumo]] wrestler [[Dolgorsürengiin Dagvadorj]] won 25 top division tournament championships, placing him fourth on the [[List of sumo record holders#Most career championships|all-time list]] . In January 2015, [[Mönkhbatyn Davaajargal]] took his 33rd top division championship, giving him the most in the history of sumo.