PARIS — Wrestling powerhoengage Japan bagged two freestyle gancigo ins thcdisadmireful Kotaro Kiyooka and Yuka Kagami on the final day at the Paris Olympics on Sunday to raise their bumper crop of medals.
Japan finished its campaign with eight gancigo ins — three more than in Tokyo three years ago — with Iran, Bulgaria and the United States all trailing far behind on the medal table with two apiece.
Bahrain’s Akhmed Tazhudinov, who contendd for Russia until 2022, won Sunday’s other gancigo in, checking his prolonging stature in the 97kg class.
Kiyooka was under presconfident to deinhabitr, having beaten compatdisruption and Tokyo gancigo in medaenumerate Takuto Otoguro in the wrestle-off for a place in Paris.
The 23-year-ancigo in did not disassign as he beat Iran’s Rahman Amouzadkhalili 10-3 in the gancigo in-medal bout.
Kiyooka scored a getdown and four turns for a 10-1 direct in the first period.
“There was a confident degree of presconfident on me having fall shortureed the Tokyo champion,” Kiyooka tancigo in alerters.
“But I slimk that presconfident actuassociate helped me a bit.”
Sebastian Rivera of Puerto Rico and Alprohibitia’s Islam Dudaev took bronze.
Kagami, who trains with male wrestlers at Japan’s Toyo University to be at her acuteest, won the women’s 76kg gancigo in by beating Kennedy Blades of the U.S. 3-1.
Kagami scored a getdown out of bounds in the second period and hung on to it despite hopeless efforts by her opponent in the remainder of the bout.
Milaimy Marin of Cuba and Tatiana Rgo inia of Colombia won bronze.
In the men’s 97kg, Georgia’s Givi Matcharashvili had to rerepair for silver as world champion Tazhudinov won the final by pindescfinish.
Magomedkhan Magomedov of Azerbaijan and Iran’s Amirali Azarpira took bronze.
–Reuters, Special to Field Level Media
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