MONGOLIA

Capital: Ulaanbaatar

NOC Recognition Year: 1962

Asian Games Debut: 1974

Mongolia's Asian Games debut came at the 1974 edition in Tehran where they picked up 15 medals including two golds.

Both of those came in freestyle wrestling with Dashdorjiin Tserentogtokh and Khorloogiin Bayanmönkh crowned champions.

Mongolia boycotted Seoul 1986 along with fellow socialist nations Afghanistan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Laos, North Korea, South Yemen, Syria and Vietnam due to political tensions.

Aside from that edition, Mongolia have been ever-present and have won at least one gold medal at every Asian Games which they have participated.

Mongolia have achieved more than 100 medals across wrestling and judo while they have also proven to be strong in shooting and boxing.

Their best performance came at Jakarta-Palembang 2018 where they collected five gold, nine silver and 11 bronze medals to rank 16th.

At Hangzhou 2022, Mongolia won three golds, five silvers and 13 bronze to end 21st.