“Naadam means ‘games’ in the Mongolian language and it includes three main competitions, Mongolian wrestling, archery and horse racing,” he explains. It’s also the largest gathering in ...

ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia (CNN)-- Standing slightly ... so they would be better skilled in archery. Anklebone shooting is the newest event in the Naadam Festival, only becoming an official sport ...

Naadam is a national festival celebrated every year from 11 to 13 July across Mongolia that focuses on three traditional games: horseracing, wrestling and archery. Mongolian Naadam is inseparably ...

Naadam is an annual festival celebrated in Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and the Tuva Republic that showcases traditional games of horse racing, wrestling, and archery, which are linked to the lifestyles ...

Naadam, held in Inner Mongolia each July, where horse riding is one of the "three games of men", along with Mongolian wrestling and archery. As many as a thousand horses gather behind a starting ...

the branding of foals and other social events celebrated by Mongolia's nomadic communities.The Urtiin duu can also be heard at the naadam, a festivity featuring wrestling, archery and horseracing ...

Mongolia's freestyle women wrestlers hope ... only two of the three "manly games" at the nationn's annual naadam celebrations - archery and horse-riding - and are barred from testing their ...

This is the Urtiin Duu, or "long song," a Mongolian vocal tradition recognized by UNESCO in 2005 as a shared intangible ...

“Naadam means ‘games’ in the Mongolian language and it includes three main competitions, Mongolian wrestling, archery and horse racing,” he explains. It’s also the largest gathering in Mongolia, with ...