Georgia
Brazil’s Ricardo Santos and Emanuel Rego win bronze medal in beach volleyball
Ricardo Santos and Emanuel Rego of Brazil beat Georgian pair Jorge Terceiro and Renato Gomes in the bronze medal match of men’s beach volleyball.
They won in two sets 21-15, 21-10.
Shirvani Muradov wins gold in men’s 96kg wrestling
Shirvani Muradov from Russia has won the gold medal in men’s 96kg freestyle wrestling.
Taimuraz Tigiyev from Kazakhstan has won the silver medal. Khetag Gazyumov from Azerbaijan and George Gogshelidze from Georgia won bronze medals.
Georgia’s Revazi Mindorashvili has won the country’s second gold in the wrestling, by winning the men’s 84kg division.
He defeated Tajikistan’s Yusup Abdusalomov from Tajikistan who won the silver medal.
Davyd Bichinashvili of Russia beat Germany’s Georgy Ketoev to win the bronze medal. Taras Danko from the Ukraine won the other bronze medal.
Ramazan Sahin wins gold in men’s 66kg wrestling
Ramazan Sahin from Turkey has won the gold medal in the men’s 66kg wrestling. Andriy Stadnik from Ukraine won the silver medal.
Otar Tushishvili from Georgia and Sushil Kumar from India won bronze medals.
Andrei Aramnau from Belarus has won the gold medal in the men’s 105kg category at the Beijing Olympics.
Russia’s Dmitriy Klokov and Dmitry Lapikov finished second and third, respectively.
Irakli Tsirekidze wins gold in men’s judo 90kg
Irakli Tsirekidze won Georgia’e second gold medal by beating Amar Benikhlef of Algeria with a shido. Amar Benikhlef wins the silver medal.
Hesham Mesbah of Egypt and Sergei Aschwanden of Switzerland both won bronze medals.
Manuchar Kvirkvelia from Georgia won the men’s greco-roman 74 kilogram wrestling by defeating Chang Yongxiang from China.
It was China’s first Olympic medal ever in the wrestling.
Christophe Guenot from France and Yavor Yanakiev from Bulgaria won bronze medals.
