Naidan Gundegmaa won Mongolia's first Olympic medal in weightlifting at the 2008 Beijing Games, taking silver in the women's 75 kg category — a result that prompted the Bank of Mongolia to issue this commemorative within the same calendar year. The speed of issue was unusual even for Olympic commemoratives.
Naidan Gundegmaa won Mongolia's first Olympic medal in weightlifting at the 2008 Beijing Games, taking silver in the women's 75 kg category — a result that prompted the Bank of Mongolia to issue this commemorative within the same calendar year. The speed of issue was unusual even for Olympic commemoratives.