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]]>The final contest of 125kg weight division in Men’s freestyle wrestling was held in opening hours of Sunday Tehran local time in Rioo’s Carioca Arena 2 where Iran’s Ghasemi failed to overcome Taha Akgül of Turkey and finished in the second place of the heavyweight category.
On road to the finals, Ghasemi had offered spellbinding performances by quelling Korey Jarvis of Canada 5-2 before subduing Diaaeldin Kamal Gouda Abdelmottaleb of Egypt 7-0. Later in his third encounter, the Iranian freestyler breezed past Georgia’s Geno Petriashvili 4-4 in order to reach semifinals where he thrashed Tervel Dlagnev of the United States by fall in less than one minute into the game.
Video: Fantastic match Just in 30 Sec. Komeil Ghasemi-IRAN VS Tervel Dlagnev-USA
The Turkish wrestler Akgül won the title while Ibragim Saidov of Belarus and Georgia’s Geno Petriashvili jointly stood on the third podium.
Komeil Ghasemi’s silver medal marked the eighth trophy won so far by the Iranian athletes present in the 2016 Olympic extravaganza./MNA
VIdeo: Final 125 Kg FS wrestling Rio 2016 OLympic
Video: Medal Ceremony 125KG FS wrestling Rio 2016 Olympic
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Rahimi had already received one gold, one silver and two bronze medals in free-style wrestling before the Rio 2016 wrestling competitions.
The 31st Olympic Games officially started in Rio, Brazil, on August 6. A sum of 10,444 athletes from 206 countries compete in 28 sport fields in Rio.
A sum of 64 Iranian athletes are competing in 14 sport fields of boxing, table tennis, shooting, bow and arrow, rowing, weightlifting, track and field, taekwondo, judo, fencing, volleyball, free-style wrestling, Greco-Roman wrestling, swimming and cycling. /IRNA
Video: Bronze Medal Competition of Rio 2016 Hassan Rahimi, IRAN VS Yowlys Bonne, Cuba
Video: Medal Ceremony of Hassan Rahimi in Rio 2016 Olympic
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