| Oyuna Uranchimeg | |
| Birth Name: | Batoyun Uranchimeg |
| Birth Date: | 23 June 1973 |
| Birth Place: | Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia |
| Curling Club: | Chaska CC, Chaska, MN[1] |
| World Wheelchair Championship Appearances: | 2 |
| Paralympic Appearances: | 1 (2022) |
Batoyun "Oyuna" Uranchimeg (born June 23, 1973) is an American wheelchair curler and administrative assistant at the University of St. Thomas.
Uranchimeg was born in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.[2] [3] She was born and raised in Mongolia before visiting a friend in Minnesota in 2000. During her stay, she got into a car accident and became paralyzed from the waist down.[4]
Following her accident, Uranchimeg became an Emerging Media Department's administrative assistant at the University of St. Thomas.[5] She took up wheelchair curling in 2016 and became a member of the Four Seasons and Dakota Curling Club.[2] While attending one the national team's training camps, Uranchimeg met Rusty Scheiber, the assistant coach of the national team, who encouraged her to pursue the sport.[6] She joined the United States National Curling team in 2018 after successfully passing the pretrials.[5]
In 2021, Uranchimeg helped the United States National Curling team win a gold medal at the World Wheelchair-B Curling Championship.[7] Following this, Uranchimeg made her Paralympics debut at the 2022 Winter Paralympics.[5]