Celebrations, which started last April, culminated in a gala at Palazzo Kursaal on Mount Titan, upon which San Marino is perched.

Along with the country’s greatest national champions, the event featured several personalities from the Olympic Movement, including Spyros Capralos, an International Olympic Committee member and European Olympic Committees Executive Committee member.

"Despite being the NOC (National Olympic Committee) of such a small country, over the 60 years of its existence this NOC has given unswerving support to the Olympic Movement of Europe," Capralos said in his address at the ceremony.

"This is thanks to a succession of Presidents and secretaries general devoted to promoting the principles and values of the Olympic Movement, including the incumbents, our good friends Gian Primo Giardi and Eros Bologna, whom I have known for a long time and whose work I highly praise."

Capralos also stressed the measure of how sport in San Marino has grown, highlighting the successes of its young athletes at the 2019 European Youth Olympic Festival in Baku.

"But I want to above all congratulate you for the result reached by your NOC at the Minsk 2019 European Games, where your wrestler, Myles Nazem Amine, won a historic bronze medal, the first medal for San Marino in wrestling, that has allowed him to qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games," he added.

Among the highlights of the night was the presentation of the book titled 60 years of passion, which re-traces the history of the CONS.

Since making their debut at Rome 1960, San Marino has competed at every Summer Olympic Games with the exception of Tokyo 1964.

The country has never won a medal.