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Yanjindulam sets new world record
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Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Memory athlete A.Yanjindulam, known as Yanjaa, won silver at the World Memory Championships held on December 14-16 in Vienna, Austria.
Yanjaa represented her home country at the world championships. She set new world record by memorizing 413 images in five minutes.
German memory athlete Johannes Mallow became the World Memory Champion.
After the competition, Yanjaa posted on her facebook page:
“I just placed 2nd at the "World Memory Championships". I even got the world record in images, 413 in 5 minutes. I’m not happy about it. It’s not a true win when you feel personally attacked and sabotaged. Conscious malice or willful ignorance, the consequences are the same and I feel robbed of a win. I wouldn’t have called myself “the world memory champion” after this small competition, because it’s not fair when half of the best competitors in the world can't attend because the organizer chose to host it somewhere where visas aren't granted easily to Asians. To be questioned on my integrity, my sense of morality and get comments on my behavior throughout the competition was, to put it delicately, some bullshit. At one point the main organizer even scolded me for turning the memorization page 1 second too fast, to give you just an idea of the differential treatment I had to endure. Death by a thousand cuts, a loss by a thousand microaggressions. That, among other things, made it feel less world-class and more like an ol' European competition where most of the very few competitors where white men.”
