Greco-Roman Wrestling 77 kg category 18th Asian Games Jakarta Palembang 2018

18th  Asian Games Jakarta

Palembang 2018

IR Iran wins fourth gold In Greco-Roman 

Wrestling 77 kg category

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Asian Games 2018

Antara/Palembang/ Jakarta

Iranian athlete Mohammadali Geraei secured his country's fourth gold medal in the 2018 Asian Games Greco-Roman wrestling 77 kg category after defeating Kyrgyzstan wrestler Akzhol Makhmudov on Wednesday night.

In the final match held at the Assembly Hall of the Jakarta Convention Center, Geraei was 7-3 ahead in technical points and 3-1 in classification points.

He joined the earlier achievements of his three compatriots, namely in the freestyle 86 kg category by Hassan Yazdanicharati, the men's 97 kg category by Alireza Kariminachiani and Parviz Hadibasmanj in the 125 kg category.

The first golds were obtained on the first day of the competition on Sunday (Aug. 19), while an additional gold was obtained on Monday (Aug. 20).

Geraei started out the match aggressively and tried several times to slam, but got fierce opposition from Makhmudov.

In the first three minutes, the Iranian wrestler took a 7-2 lead on technical points, but in the second three minutes it was the turn of the Kyrgyztan wrestler to make moves to slam the opponent, even though he could not win any points.

Iran takes home the gold medal, while Kyrgyzstan gets the silver. The two bronze medals were won by South Korea wrestler Kim Hyeonwoo after defeating Uzbekistan wrestler Bilan Nalgiev, as well as China wrestler Yang Bin after defeating Japanese wrestler Shohei Yabiku.