Demchigjavyn Zagdsüren

Demchigjavyn Zagdsüren was an Honoured Worker of Health Protection of Mongolia, a doctor of medicine, a sports doctor, and a sports executive who served as the President of the National Olympic Committee of Mongolia. Zagdsüren graduated from medical university where he began a career at the children’s infectious diseases hospital. After working as a doctor he became the head of a sports hospital and research centre. As a qualified sports medicine doctor he completed multiple courses overseas including a doping course in Beijing in 1996 and a sports management course in Frankfurt in 2003.

Zagdsüren was elected as the Vice-President of the National Olympic Committee of Mongolia in 1999, before serving as their President from 2001 until 2020. His involvement with the Olympics went back to the 1992 Barcelona Games when he worked as the team doctor. He later worked in the role as the Mongolian team captain and the head of the Mongolian delegation for multiple editions of both the Summer and Winter Olympics. Zagdsüren’s career was not without controversy, as he was sentenced to three years in prison in 2014 for misappropriation of athletics funds. Despite the conviction, however, he was later pardoned.