Ulaanbaatar, 19 December 2019 – Visa, the global leader in digital payments and worldwide sponsor of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, together with Trade and Development Bank of Mongolia, the leading banking and financial services provider in Mongolia, today announced it has welcomed Munkhbat URANTSETSEG the first Mongolian athlete to join Team Visa ahead of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.
Mrs. Munkhbat URANTSETSEG, a judoka competes in the -48kg category, is one of the most celebrated and successful Mongolian athletes, who became the first female world champion in judo from Mongolia in 2013. She has amassed 56 victories by ippons worldwide collecting 22 international titles and is currently ranked number seven in the world.
Mr. Patrick Yoon, Country Manager, Visa Mongolia & Korea said:
“Visa is a proud sponsor of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 and it is a great honor to welcome Mrs. Munkhbat URANTSETSEG to Team Visa as a proof of Trade & Development Bank of Mongolia and Visa’s deep partnership since 2001. We believe she is the perfect embodiment of what the Visa brand stands for, as she pushes boundaries every day in everything she does. We are excited to cheer her on and will be by her side every step of the journey as she continues her pursuit of the Olympic gold in Tokyo next year.”
Mr. Orkhon Onon, CEO of the Trade and Development Bank said:
“We are very happy that Mrs. URANTSETSEG teaming up with us on joining this prestigious international team for the first time from Mongolia. We are cheering our athletes from our hearts.”
“It’s a great honor to be part of Team VISA. Knowing that global brand like Visa and Mongolia’s leading financial institution Trade and Development Bank teaming up with me and having my back helps me to focus on my quest to get my first Olympic gold,” said Mrs. Munkhbat URANTSETSEG.
A global Olympic partner for more than 30 years and Paralympic partner since 2003, Visa founded its Team Visa program in 2000, with the aim of providing athletes with the tools, resources and support they need to achieve their lifelong dreams, both on and off the field of competition, regardless of their origin or background. Visa offers these athletes tools and resources such as financial support and financial literacy training. To date, Visa has supported nearly 500 athletes.
At the Team Visa Summit hosted at the company’s San Francisco Innovation Center, Visa announced its most diverse roster of athletes on Team Visa Tokyo 2020 representing 43 countries, the most in Team Visa history, the current roster is comprised of 70+ athletes across 30+ sports, including new additions to The Games: Surfing, Skateboarding and Sport Climbing.
The Team Visa Tokyo 2020 roster includes decorated Olympians (Simone Biles, Gymnastics, USA, Katie Ledecky, Swimming, USA, Daniel Dias, Para Swimming, Brazil and Yelyzaveta Mereshko, Para Swimming, Ukraine), World Champions (Megan Rapinoe, Football, USA, PV Sindhu, Badminton, India, Mariana Pajón, BMX, Colombia and Oksana Masters, Para Cycling, USA) and 16 first-time Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls (Kanoa Igarashi, Surfing, Japan and Poppy Starr Olsen, Skateboarding, Australia and Sean McColl, Sport Climbing, Canada, among others).
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