29 Mar 2024
Wednesday 24 December 2014 - 21:16
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Iran's Omid Haji-Norouzi wins 2nd Olympic gold medal

Iran
Omid Norouzi of Iran won Olympic gold medal in men's 60-kilogram Greco-Roman wrestling beating his Georgian opponent Revaz Lashkhi.

Haji-Norouzi defeated hisGeorgianopponent 1-0 in both the first and second 2 minutes of the match held at the Londons ExCeL to claim the gold.

The 26-year-old Iranian athlete had overcome his Chinese, Bulgarian, Kazakh and Japanese rivals in his march to the final bout on Monday, Press TV reported.

Haji-Norouzis victory came after another Iranian Greco-Roman wrestler Hamid Sourianwho claimed the gold medal of mens 55kg Greco-Roman by defeating Rovshan Bayramov (25) from Azerbaijan.on Sunday.

The Iranians also havea pair of Greco-Roman world champions in Saeid Morad Abdvali at 66 kilograms and Ghasem Rezaei at 96 kg.

 

 
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