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Which Olympic athletes won Cameroonâs first medals?
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Cameroon made its Olympic debut at the 1964 Tokyo Games. The countryâs first-ever Olympic medal was won by boxer Joseph Bessala, who secured a silver medal in the welterweight division at the 1968 Games in Mexico City.1