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Burnsville, MN
Hamline University School of Business (Saint Paul, MN)
Has described America as “The country where I was reborn.”
Oyuna Uranchimeg was born and raised in Mongolia. While visiting a friend in the U.S. from Mongolia in 2000, she was in a car accident and sustained a spinal cord injury that left her paralyzed from the waist down. She was separated from her family, including her six-year-old son, for eight years until she became a U.S. citizen.
In 2016, a friend took her to lunch at the Four Seasons Curling Club (Blaine, Minnesota), where the wheelchair curling team was practicing. After the lunch, she started to curl at age 43 and became a member of the U.S. national team in a few years. Uranchimeg made her Paralympic debut in the mixed team event at the Paralympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 where the team finished fifth. At the 2024 World Wheelchair Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, she went undefeated (6-0) in round robin play with partner Matthew Thums before losing in the quarterfinals.
She currently works for the University of St. Thomas as a coordinator n the Emerging Media department. Her two adult children, now both live in the United States and she got her first tattoo on her 50th birthday. The tattoo features the Paralympic Agitos with a wheelchair curling pictogram and the year 2022.
The Paralympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 wrapped up over the weekend, with Team USA athletes claiming 20 medals to finish fourth in the overall medal table. American women contributed to 14 of those medals, though their impact at the Games went far be...
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