Oyuna Uranchimeg

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Oyuna Uranchimeg
Curler
Born
Batoyun Uranchimeg

(1973-06-23) June 23, 1973 (age 51)
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Team
Curling club Chaska CC,
Chaska, MN [1]
World Wheelchair Championship
appearances		3 (2021, 2024, 2025)
Paralympic
appearances		1 (2022)

Batoyun "Oyuna" Uranchimeg (born June 23, 1973) is an American wheelchair curler and administrative assistant at the University of St. Thomas.

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Early life

Uranchimeg was born in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. [2] [3] She was born and raised in Mongolia before visiting a friend in Minnesota in 2000. During her stay, she got into a car accident and became paralyzed from the waist down. [4]

Career

Following her accident, Uranchimeg became an Emerging Media Department's administrative assistant at the University of St. Thomas. [5] She took up wheelchair curling in 2016 and became a member of the Four Seasons and Dakota Curling Club. [2] While attending one the national team's training camps, Uranchimeg met Rusty Scheiber, the assistant coach of the national team, who encouraged her to pursue the sport. [6] She joined the United States National Curling team in 2018 after successfully passing the pretrials. [5]

In 2021, Uranchimeg helped the United States National Curling team win a gold medal at the World Wheelchair-B Curling Championship. [7] Following this, Uranchimeg made her Paralympics debut at the 2022 Winter Paralympics. [5]

References

  1. ↑ "USA Curling National Team Athletes". USA Curling. Retrieved May 17, 2024.
  2. 1 2 "Batoyun "Oyuna" Uranchimeg". Team USA. Archived from the original on February 16, 2022. Retrieved March 2, 2022.
  3. ↑ "Batoyun URANCHIMEG - Wheelchair Curling". Beijing 2022 Paralympics . Archived from the original on March 11, 2022.
  4. ↑ Bruess, Carol (December 16, 2015). "Humans of St. Thomas: Batoyun Uranchimeg". University of St. Thomas. Retrieved March 2, 2022.
  5. 1 2 3 "St. Thomas Staff Member Competes in Paralympic Games". St. Thomas University. March 3, 2022. Retrieved March 3, 2022.
  6. ↑ Meaney, Mackenzie (February 11, 2022). "This First-Time Paralympian Is Ready To Bring Representation To Wheelchair Curling". Good Sport. Retrieved March 3, 2022.
  7. ↑ "Team USA Wins Gold at 2021 World Wheelchair-B Curling Championship". Team USA. Retrieved March 3, 2022. Bat-Oyun "Oyuna" Uranchimeg
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