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Olympic Games
Russian teenager strikes gold
BEIJING: Islam-Beka Albiev won Russia’s second Greco-Roman wrestling gold medal in as many Olympic matches on Tuesday, defeating Vitaliy Rahimov of Azerbaijan in the 60kg final.
The 19-year-old Albiev is the second youngest wrestling gold medallist in Olympic history and the youngest Greco-Roman champion, according to the governing body FILA.
The youngest to win any wrestling gold was Saban Trstena, who was slightly younger than Albiev currently is when he won at 52 kg for Yugoslavia in 1984. Albiev, eighth at last year’s world championships, swept the two periods of the best-of-three match against Rahimov, winning the first 2-0 and the second 4-0. The teenager’s victory came minutes after Nazyr Mankiev of Russia was the surprise winner at 55 kg. The bronze medals were won by Ruslan Tiumenbaev of Kyrgyzstan and Nurbakyt Tengizbayev of Kazakhstan. Armen Nazarian of Bulgaria failed to become only the sixth wrestler to win four Olympic medals when he lost twice at 60 kg, first to Rahimov in the quarterfinals and again to Sheng Jiang of China in the repechage round. — AP
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