Danzandarjaagiin Sereeter

Danzandarjaagiin Sereeter (Mongolian: Данзандаржаагийн Сэрээтэр; born April 23, 1943) is a retired Mongolian wrestler. At the 1968 Summer Olympics he won the bronze medal in the men's Freestyle Lightweight category.^[1]

Sereeter won gold medal at the 1968 Tbilisi International Tournament held in USSR, by defeating the 1964 Soviet Olympic medalist Nodar Khokhashvili. A few months later, he again won gold medal at the Dan Kolov & Nikola Petrov Tournament in Bulgaria, drawing against the reigning Olympic, European Сhampion and 1962 World Champion Enyu Valchev of Bulgaria. Sereeter became the first wrestler from Mongolia to win gold medals at these prestigious Grand Prix events.^[2]

At the 1970 World Championships Sereeter received the bronze medal in the men's Freestyle 74 kg, by losing the Silver medal match against Mohammad Farhangdoust of Iran.

At the 1971 World Championships he placing sixth in the men's Freestyle 74 kg, however, Mongolian wrestler never lost a match: Sereeter played a draw against Mohammad Farhangdoust of Iran and won five matches, including the match against Daniel Robin of French. The tournament was held using a penalty point system - 1 penalty point for a point win (with a difference of less than eight points), 2 penalty points for a draw and so on. When a wrestler accumulated 6 or more penalty points, they were eliminated from the tournament. Mongolian wrestler received more than 6 penalty points and left the tournament undefeated.^[3]

• Danzandarjaagiin Sereeter at the International Wrestling Database
• Danzandarjaagiin Sereeter at Olympedia
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• All about freestyle wrestling (in Russian). Vladikavkaz: Project-Press. 1997. p. 75.