LOH 2021 Tokyo | The Wrestling Wrestler did not add any more gold, stopped by American Taylor

The American winner among freestyle athletes weighing up to 86 kilograms was the American wrestler David Taylor, when in the final he defeated the main favorite and the first seeded Iranian Hassan Jazdaní 4: 3. The Russian Zavur Ugujev won the lowest weight category of freestyle athletes up to 57 kg. Among women in the same weight, the native Risako Kawai celebrated.

American wrestler David Taylor became the Olympic winner among freestyle athletes weighing up to 86 kilograms

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The 26-year-old reigning world champion from the previous year’s Jazdaní championship already has gold from Rio de Janeiro, where he still triumphed in a weight of up to 74 kg. Taylor, four years older, won the World Cup before his final opponent in 2018. Bronze was won today by Russian Artur Najfonov and Myles Amine from San Marino.

Ugujev surpassed Indian Kumar Ravi in ​​the final duel of the category up to 57 kg 7: 4. Ugujev thus confirmed his position as reigning world champion in 2019 in Nur-Sultan. The American Thomas Gilman and Nurislam Sanaev from Kazakhstan rejoiced in the bronze duel.

Rus Zavur Ugujev won the lowest weight category of freestyle players up to 57 kg at the Tokyo Olympics

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Japan Kawai was more successful than Jazdaní in the 57 kg freestyle tournament. In the final, the reigning world champion of Belarus defeated Iryna Kurachkin 5: 0 and followed the gold from Rio, where she celebrated the championship weighing up to 63 kg. The bronze was won by the American Helen Maroulis and the Bulgarian Eg Nikolov.