Today Mongolia's Olympic Team Athletes Union is celebrating  the day that a Mongolian athlete won the nation's first Olympic medal on October 20, 1968.

The Central Sports Palace in Ulaanbaatar is holding a press conference along with Mongolian athletes who took part in Mongolia's first Olympic Games in 1964 and other Olympic medalists today.

On October 20th in 1968, Mongolian athletes earned the nation's first bronze medal in freestyle wrestling at the XIX Summer Olympic Games in Mexico.

Chimedbazar Damdinsharav sealed his name in Mongolian sports history as Mongolia's first Olympic bronze medalist.

Following his success, Mongolian athletes had Mongolia's national flag raised in the Olympic village. Freestyle wrestlers Danzandarjaa Sereeter and Tumur Artag won bronze medals, and Jigjid Munkhbat won a silver medal at the same Olympic Games.