30 Facts About Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od

Bat-Ochiryn "Ziggy" Ser-Od is a Mongolian long-distance runner, particularly the marathon.

Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od represented his country in the marathon at six Summer Olympics, in 2004,2008,2012,2016,2021 and 2024.

Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od is Mongolia's first ever elite level marathon runner and his personal best of 2:08:50 is the Mongolian national record.

Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od was the 2013 Asian Marathon Champion and won the Brighton Marathon and Hofu Yomiuri Marathon in 2010.

Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od made his international debut at the 2002 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships and stepped up a distance to the marathon at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics, where he came 63rd with a personal best of 2:26:39 hours.

Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od was twelfth at the 2004 Hong Kong Marathon, the third Asian to finish in a largely African field.

Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od made his Olympic debut that year at the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od was just one of two Mongolians to compete in the athletics competition, alongside women's marathoner Luvsanlkhundegiin Otgonbayar.

Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od came 75th overall with a time of 2:33:24 hours, some twenty minutes behind the winner.

Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od ran his 2005 season's best in Ulaanbaatar in June before the 2005 World Championships, where he improved upon his previous placing by coming in 61st.

Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od set a half marathon best of 1:08:12 in October, representing his country at the 2005 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships.

Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od showed significant improvement at the Asian Marathon Championship, incorporated into that year's Beijing Marathon, as he was the sixth best Asian and knocked over six minutes off his best time, recording 2:20:13 hours.

Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od did not perform as well at the 2006 Asian Games as he came seventeenth in the Games marathon.

Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od remained in East Asia in 2007, coming 55th at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka before making another large improvement at the Beijing Marathon, where he completed the distance in a time of 2:16:22 hours.

Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od lined up for the Asian Marathon Championship race at the 2008 Hong Kong Marathon and demonstrated his progression by coming runner-up in the Asian category behind race winner Koichiro Fukuoka and taking fifth place in the international field.

Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od won 10K races in North Shields, Newton Aycliffe and Morpeth, as well as placing top three in half marathons in Redcar and Mansfield.

Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od was selected to run on the track at the 2009 Asian Athletics Championships and he came twelfth in the 5000 metres and set a track best of 29:43.79 minutes for ninth place in the 10,000 metres.

Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od was highly active in the marathon in 2010: he was third at the Hong Kong Marathon in February, and came fifth at the Zhengzhou Marathon with a time of 2:17:01 hours in March.

Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od was initially invited to the 2010 London Marathon in April, but the organisers rescinded their invitation upon discovering he had run the full distance just three weeks before the event.

Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od was runner-up in his first race of 2012 Beppu-Oita Marathon, setting a new best of 2:11:05 behind Harun Njoroge.

Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od ran within the course record time at the Brighton Marathon, but finished fourth in a fast race.

Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od represented his country at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and finished in 51st position in the marathon.

Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od was selected as national flag bearer in the opening ceremony.

Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od ended the year with a win at the Osaka Marathon in a course record time of 2:11:52.

Just months later, Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od built on his Asian Games success with his personal-best and national-record time of 2:08:50, at the Fukuoka Marathon in December 2014.

Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od participated in both the 2015 World Championships in Athletics held in Beijing and the 2017 World Championships in Athletics held in London, placing respectively 38th and 48th in the marathon events.

Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od participated in the 2019 World Championships in Athletics in Doha, Qatar where he finished 54th in 2:36:01 in the men's marathon.

In 2021 Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od ran The 76th Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon in Japan, where he finished 33rd in a time of 2:09:26.

Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od Bat-Ochir competed in the men's marathon at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games in August 2021, where he did not finish, after battling an illness.

In 2022 Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od participated in the 2022 World Championships in Athletics in Eugene, Oregon.