Batoyun Uranchimeg is an American wheelchair curler and administrative assistant at the University of St. Thomas.
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Born | June 23, 1973 |
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Curling club | Four Seasons and Dakota Curling Club |
World Wheelchair Championship appearances | 2 (2021, 2024) |
Paralympic appearances | 1 (2022) |
Uranchimeg was born on June 23, 1973, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.[1][2] 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.[3]
Following her accident, Uranchimeg became an Emerging Media Department's administrative assistant at the University of St. Thomas.[4] She took up wheelchair curling in 2016 and became a member of the Four Seasons and Dakota Curling Club.[1] 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.[5] She joined the United States National Curling team in 2018 after successfully passing the pretrials.[4]
In 2021, Uranchimeg helped the United States National Curling team win a gold medal at the World Wheelchair-B Curling Championship.[6] Following this, Uranchimeg made her Paralympics debut at the 2022 Winter Paralympics.[4]