Taymazov repeat freestyle 120 kg gold medalist
BEIJING (AP) Artur Taymazov of Uzbekistan always seems to peak during Olympic years.
Taymazov repeated Thursday as the Olympic freestyle wrestling champion at 120 kilograms, denying Russia its seventh wrestling gold medal in Beijing by defeating Bakhityar Akhmedov 3-0, 1-0.
Taymazov joined Russia's Mavlet Batirov (60 kg) and Buvaysa Saytiev (74 kg) as repeat freestyle gold medalists from the Athens Games in 2004. Taymazov, 29, was a silver medalist in 2000. He also won world championships in 2003 and 2006, but always seems to be at his best in the Olympics.
OLYMPICS_DOLY_WRE Headlines
- CAS: Bitter wrestler who dropped medal was right
- Taymazov repeat freestyle 120 kg gold medalist
- Muradov beats out gold medalist, wins his own
- Georgian beats Russian, then wins 84 kg gold
- Cormier out at 96 kg due to hydration problems
- Saytiev wins third freestyle wrestling gold
- CAS asked to rule on Swedish wrestler case
- Turkey's Sahin wins wrestling gold at 66 kg
- Askren bounced early in Olympic wrestling
- Batirov repeats as wrestling gold medalist
| Medal Count | ||||
| Wrestling | ||||
| G | S | B | Total | |
| AFG | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ALB | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ALG | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ASA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| AND | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ANG | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ANT | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ARG | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ARM | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ARU | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Full Medals Table | ||||
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