Menggen Jimisu

Menggenjimisu

"Genjimisu Meng" at 2012 Paralympics
Personal information
Native name	Mönggönjimis (Mongolian script: ᠮᠥᠩᠭᠥᠨᠵᠢᠮᠢᠰ)
Ethnicity	Mongolian
Citizenship	Chinese
Born	(1991-04-08) April 8, 1991 (age 26) Ordos, Inner Mongolia
Sport
Sport	Paralympic athletics
Event(s)	F40 Shot Put and Javelin
Club	Inner Mongolia Province Athletic Team: Hohhot, CHN
Coached by	Shen Gang
Medal record Representing  China Paralympic Games 2008 Beijing Discus Throw - F40 2008 Beijing Shot put - F40 2012 London Shot Put - F40 2012 London Discus Throw - F40 World Championships 2011 Christchurch shot put - F40 2011 Christchurch discus - F40

Menggenjimisu (Chinese: 孟根吉米素; pinyin: Mènggēnjímǐsù) or, in Mongolian, Mönggönjimis (Mongolian script: ᠮᠥᠩᠭᠥᠨᠵᠢᠮᠢᠰ, pronunciation: /mɵŋgɵntʃims/ 'silver fruit') is a Paralympian athlete of short stature from China competing in category F40 shot put and discus events. Menggenjimisu won a Gold Medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics F40 Discus competing under the name Jimisu Menggen. At the London Paralympics she was billed as Genjimisu Meng.

Menggenjimisu was born in Ordos in Inner Mongolia on 8 April 1991 in a yurt. Her mother abandoned her because she was of small stature and Menggenjimisu was brought up by her grandmother as her father also had a disability. Menggenjimisu's family were poor but they still managed to send her to school. Menggenjimisu did well at her studies and still found time to look after the family's herd in her spare time. Her ability to withstand a hard life drew the attention of Hasilao in 2005. Hasilao, who had won a medal in Atlanta in 1996, and who was planning to compete himself in his fourth Paralympics in Beijing, had set up a training camp for ten athletes in Ordos. Ordos is now known for large government projects where there is a newly built "ghost city" where few people live and which is hardly used by local people.