Yanjaa is one of only 22 international grandmasters of memory.
18 Facts About Yanjaa
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Yanjaa first rose to prominence in memory sports in 2014 by winning the team gold medal as well as first place in names and faces at the World Memory Championships 2014 in Haikou, China during her first year of memory training, at the age of 20.
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Yanjaa was born in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia to a Buryat-Mongolian mother and a Khalkha-Mongolian father.
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Yanjaa grew up in Mongolia, Stockholm, Tokyo and attended boarding school in Kenya at the Swedish School of Nairobi where she studied Swahili and philosophy.
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Yanjaa graduated from Stockholm Business School with a degree in Business and Economics, where she was an active member of the student council marketing team.
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Yanjaa attended the University of Uppsala to study art history during this time.
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Yanjaa was originally inspired to compete in memory after reading Moonwalking with Einstein by American author and former US memory champion Joshua Foer.
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Yanjaa entered her first memory competition two months after reading it, receiving the newcomer award and placing first in the discipline names and faces at a German Open Memory competition in Munich, Germany.
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Yanjaa has since medalled in a number of competitions as well as broken numerous memory records.
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In 2015 Yanjaa was invited as one of the top 200 Leaders of Tomorrow at the 46th St Gallen Symposium in St Gallen, Switzerland for her achievements in memory sports at a young age.
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In 2015 Yanjaa starred in the Swedish documentary Masterminds, following the moments leading up to the Swedish Memory Championships 2014 where she placed second overall.
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Yanjaa was featured in the 2016 documentary How to Remember Everything, which covered the 2014 World Memory Championships in Haikou, China.
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Yanjaa was invited to speak at Investor AB's 100th anniversary, where she demonstrated recall of 10 of the 100 names and faces she had to memorize.
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Yanjaa has been interviewed and featured for memory training and language learning on Today, The Guardian, Wired as well as numerous national media publications in Sweden, China and Mongolia.
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Yanjaa was a contestant on the final season of the Chinese television program The Brain in 2017, defeating her opponent Yu Yipei by memorizing more synthesized images winning on accuracy over speed.
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Yanjaa was a contestant on the 2017 comeback season of the talent show Talang, the Swedish version of Got Talent.
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In September 2017 Yanjaa was featured as the "IKEA Human Catalogue 2018", having memorized the entire catalogue in just a week before the launch of the new catalogue.
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Yanjaa was featured in her second Netflix project on September 11,2019.