Munkhbayar Dorjsuren

Munkhbayar Dorjsuren

Personal information
Birth name	Dorjsürengiin Mönkhbayar
Full name	Munkhbayar Dorjsuren (as German citizen)
Born	(1969-07-09) July 9, 1969 (age 55)[1] Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Sport
Country	Germany  Mongolia
Sport	Women's air pistol
Event(s)	10 metre, 25 metre
Club	Sport Gemeinschaft Grafing
Coached by	Peter Kraneis
Medal record Women's shooting Representing  Mongolia Olympic Games 1992 Barcelona 25 m pistol World Championships 1998 Barcelona-Zaragoza 10 m air pistol Representing  Germany Olympic Games 2008 Beijing 25 m pistol World Championships 2002 Lahti 25 m pistol

Munkhbayar Dorjsuren (born Dorjsürengiin Mönkhbayar, Mongolian: Доржсүрэнгийн Мөнхбаяр; born July 9, 1969) is a Mongolian-German sport shooter. She was born in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, but moved to Germany and became a German citizen. She is the 1992 Olympic bronze medalist in the Women's 25 metre pistol for Mongolia and the 2008 Olympic bronze medalist in the same event for Germany. She competed in the 25 metre and 10 metre air pistol events.

Dorjsuren has competed at six Summer Olympic Games. She represented Mongolia at the 1992 Summer Olympics, at the 1996 Summer Olympics, and at the 2000 Summer Olympics. At the 1992 Summer Olympics she won the bronze medal in the women's 25 metre pistol category. She won the 1998 ISSF World Shooting Championships in 10 metre air pistol for Mongolia.

She represented Germany at the 2004 Summer Olympics, at the 2008 Summer Olympics and at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She won the 2002 ISSF World Shooting Championships in 25 metre pistol while representing Germany. Dorjsuren won gold in the Milan leg of the 2009 ISSF World Cup, 25 metre pistol category.^[2]

As of 2009,^[update] she lived in Munich, Germany.^[1]

In July 2022, the National Rifle Association of India appointed Dorjsuren as the Indian pistol team's foreign coach.^[3] She was the coach for the Indian team that won the bronze medal in the mixed 10 metre air pistol event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.^[4]

After her participation in Sydney Olympics in 2000, Munkhbayar D. moved to Germany and in 2002, she became a German citizen. In June 2013, she requested to become Mongolian citizen again.^[5]

Olympic results
Event	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012
25 metre pistol	Bronze 584+95	15th 576	25th 573	5th 583+101.6	Bronze 587+202.2	12th 582
10 metre air pistol	21st 376	21st 377	36th 368	6th 385+96.9	24th 379	25th 378

• Munkhbayar Dorjsuren at ISSF
• Munkhbayar Dorjsuren at Olympics.com
• Munkhbayar Dorjsuren at Olympedia
• Munkhbayar Dorjsuren at the German Olympic Sports Confederation (in German)
• Munkhbayar Dorjsuren at the International Shooting Sport Federation
• Munkhbayar Dorjsuren at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)