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Nandinzaya Gankhuyag takes up 7th place in ISSF World Ranking
SportsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Shooter G.Nandinzaya made it to the top ten of the women’s “50m rifle 3 positions” category in the world ranking by the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF). She was ranked at the seventh place (7/8).
State Honored Athlete (title) and Olympic silver medalist O.Gundegmaa was ranked at the ninth and 13th places in the categories of 10m and 25m pistol respectively.
As of the International Master (title) Ts.Monkhzul, she was ranked the15th in 25 m pistol.
Nandinzaya Gankhuyag has been taking active parts in the international shooting competitions since 2007, coached by her father J.Gankhuyag. She won the World University Shooting Championships, held in Kazan of Russia in 2012, and won silver medal in women’s team 10m air rifle and bronze medal in women’s 10m air rifle categories at the 2013 Summer Universiade.
She earned her pass to the Rio Olympics by having ranked at the fourth place of the USA qualifier in 2015. G.Nandinzaya completed her participation in Rio 2016 holding the 14th place out of a total of 51 shooters, competed in the women’s rifle shooting.
