Wrestling
Artur Taymazov wins gold medal in 120kg men’s wrestling
Artur Taymazov from Uzbekistan has won the gold medal in the men’s 120kg freestyle wrestling at the Beijing Olympics.
Bakhriyar Akhmedov from Russia won the silver medal. Marid Mutalimov from Kazakhstan and David Musulbes from Slovakia won bronze medals.
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.
Buvaysa Saytiev wins gold in men’s 74kg wrestling
Buvaysa Saytiev from Russia has won the gold medal in the men’s 74kg freestyle wrestling. He beat Soslan Tigiev of Uzbekistan 0-1, 1-0, 3-1 who wins the silver medal.
Bulgaria’s Kiril Terziev won the bronze medal after defeating Cuba’s Ivan Fundora. Murad Gaidarov from Belarus won the other bronze medal.
Henry Cejudo of the United States has won the gold medal in the men’s freestyle wrestling 55kg class at the Beijing Olympic Games.
Cejudo defeated Japanese Matsunaga Tomohiro on points.
Besik Kudukhov of Russia and Radoslav Velikov of Bulgaria shared the bronze medals.
China’s Wang Jiao beat Bulgaria’s Stanka Zlateva to win the women’s 72kg freestyle wrestling gold medal at the Beijing Olympic Games.
Zlateva won the silver while Japan’s Hamaguchi Kyoko and Agnieszka Wieszczek of Poland both took a bronze medal.
