After winning the Most Improved Player Award in 2009, Sanchir's success was noticed by a South Korean coach Park Sun Ghen, who was in charge of the Mongolian national team at the time and invited him to try out for the national team. Eventually he made the team and began his international career by playing in the 2009 East Asian Championship Hong Kong representing Mongolia. Since then, he has represented Mongolia in many international tournaments such as
East Asian and Asian Games, Asian Beach Games,
Universiade and other competitions. Sanchir represented Mongolia in
2013 World Universiade, in which he averaged 20.8 points and 5.6 rebounds under 28 minute playing time. But he still led the tournament in scoring. He also made the winning 3-pointer against Japan. The victory helped Mongolia to finish in 16th place.
2014 Asian Games At the
2014 Asian Games, Sanchir again led the Mongolian team in scoring. But this time, history was made. The Blue Wolves began the competition from the bottom stage - qualifying round. They were with
Hong Kong,
Maldives and
Kuwait in Group A. In the first game against Hong Kong, Sanchir scored 31 points and grabbed 13 rebounds and Mongolia beat Hong Kong 86–77. Then Mongolia had an easy win over Maldives 112–54, in which Sanchir played only 11 minutes and still finished with 10 points. Its final and most crucial game against Kuwait was important. Down by 1, Sanchir drove against Kuwait defenders and drew a foul. He made both shots and Mongolia was up by 1 with a few seconds remaining. On the last play of the game, Kuwait player shot the ball as time expired. The ball didn't go in, but a foul was called. Unfortunately, after a review, it was determined that there was no foul. Mongolia would lose a heart-breaking defeat but Sanchir led again with 23 points and 9 rebounds. In the preliminary round, Mongolia first played against Jordan. No one thought Mongolia would even give a fight. But after trailing the first quarter 18–14, Mongolia outscored their opponent 69–53 in the last three quarters and had a historic win. It guaranteed Mongolia to advance to the quarter-finals for the first time ever. Sanchir had 19 points, 7 rebounds and teammate Bilguun Battuvshin led the team with 26 points and 10 rebounds. Against host country South Korea, Mongolia gave a good fight in the first half, trailing by only a point. But the big opponents were too strong at the end, Mongolia lost 90–67. Sanchir led all players with 24 points. After the game, South Korea's coach gave a lot of credit to Mongolia, especially to Sanchir and respect was earned. In the quarter-final, Mongolia was pitted with
China,
Iran and
Japan. Playing their 6th game in 5 days, the tired and under-manned Blue Wolves had no chance against China, losing by 41 points. Sanchir did his best with 15 points and 4 rebounds. Against Iran, coach Bayartsogt Odonbaatar rested Sanchir and Bilguun. Against Japan, Mongolia again lacked energy and lost by 26 points. Sanchir had 26 of the team's 70 points and grabbed 6 rebounds. In the Classification round, Mongolia first faced against Qatar and lost by only 9 points. Unfortunately, exhausted Sanchir had his worst game of the tournament, finishing with just 3 points. For the 7th place and final game of the tournament, Mongolia played against World Cup quality opponent
Philippines. Besides leading the first quarter 21–18, Mongolia again couldn't close out the game and lost. Sanchir had 15 points and Bilguun led the team with 18 points. Although Mongolia didn't win a medal, it was a historic run for the underdog nation. Mongolia was the 8th best team in Asia, finishing on top of
Chinese Taipei, Kuwait, Jordan, and
India. ==References==