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Luvsanlkhündegiin Otgonbayar, ((モンゴル語:Лувсанлхүндэгийн Отгонбаяр); born July 13, 1982〔("Luvsanlkhundeg Otgonbayar" ), ''L'Equipe''〕) is a Mongolian athlete. She has represented her country by running the marathon at competitions such as the 2004 Summer Olympics, the 2006 Asian Games, the 2007 World Championships and the 2012 Summer Olympics. ==Career== Born in Ömnögovi Province,〔(Otgonbayar Luvsanlundeg ). London2012 (archived). Retrieved on 28 June 2013.〕 she achieved a degree of fame during the 2004 Olympics by completing the marathon, with a time 3:48:42, despite having dropped half an hour or more behind all the other competitors. ''Time'' magazine reported: :''By 10 p.m. the race wasn't a race at all, just a solitary Mongolian inching along the track. Otgonbayar, the 22-year-old daughter of camel and sheep herders, didn't so much run into the historic stadium as microshuffle in, with a gait so unhurried that the thousands of cheering spectators could be forgiven for thinking the world had paused or, at the very least, shifted into super slo-mo. () Motion doesn't get any more triumphal than the descendants of Genghis Khan racing through the grasslands, in pursuit of the true Olympic spirit.''〔("Beaten, But Not Defeated" ), ''Time'', August 20, 2004.〕 Similarly to ''Time'', the BBC celebrated Otgonbayar as one of the "unsung heroes" of the Olympics.〔("Meet the Olympics' unsung heroes" ), BBC〕 The ''Marquette Tribune'' reported that the "Mongolian Luvsanlkhundeg Otgonbayar limped across the finish line 30 minutes after the second slowest runner" while "the remaining crowd clapped in unison as she approached the final 100 meters on her way to finishing the race." The newspaper suggested that she had thus "followed in the footsteps of Pheidippides", running the marathon with notable "courage".〔("Gutsy runners add intrigue to Athens marathon" ), ''The Marquette Tribune''〕 Describing her performance, Otgonbayar said: :''"The sound of all the clapping from the fans pushed me forward, and I felt like I was running very fast. Even if I finished last, it was all right, because I still finished and many people, even famous people, didn't do that."〔 In 2015, she finished 11th at the Hamburg Marathon with a personal best of 2:38.〔http://42195.sk/results/15/035hambu.htm〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Luvsanlkhündegiin Otgonbayar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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