Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh didn’t even take off his jacket; however much of a political figure he may be, in sports you have to give it your all.
The 58-year-old president of Mongolia visited a military unit in Ulaanbaatar and decided to get on the weight bench just as he was: shirt, tie and all.
He loaded about 90 kilos onto the bar and lifted them 20 times in a row, without hesitation, in front of the soldiers who watched him in silence.
It’s not the first time he has surprised people: before becoming president, he had already gone viral riding through the Gobi Desert and posing shirtless with a hunting rifle.
With a military background and a national campaign he himself promoted to get Mongolia exercising more, it seems he practices what he preaches, literally carrying the weight on his shoulders.