Men’s Wrestling 18th Asian Games Jakarta Palembang 2018

18th  Asian Games Jakarta

Palembang 2018

IR Iran win Three Golds Madel 

Men’s Wrestling

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Asian Games 2018

Antara/Palembang/ Jakarta

Jakarta, 21/8 (Antara) – IR Iran (IRI) has dominated men’s freestyle wrestling at the 2018 Asian Games with three gold medals by the second day of the competition at the Jakarta Convention Center (JCC) Assembly Hall in Jakarta.

Three champions have emerged from among Iran’s wrestlers: Hassan Yazdanicharati in the 86 kg weight class, Alireza Kariminachiani in the 97 kg and Parviz Hadibasmanj in the 125 kg.

Iran grabbed its first two gold medals on the first day of the wrestling competition on Sunday, and claimed its third gold on Monday.

Reza Atrinagharchi also won a bronze medal for Iran in the 57 kg class.

Iran's opportunity to collect more golds is wide open, as six categories in Greco-Roman wrestling remain to be held on Tuesday and Wednesday.

DPR Korea followed Iran with two gold medals, one silver and two bronzes. Mongolia is in third with two golds and three bronzes.

India collected two golds, while Uzbekistan got one gold and three bronzes.

Behind Uzbekistan are Japan with two silvers and five bronzes, Kazakhstan with two golds and two silvers, China and Kyrgyzstan with two silvers each, Lebanon with one bronze and South Korea with four bronzes.

Of the total wrestling medals comprising 18 golds, 18 silvers and 36 bronzes, the competing wrestlers have so far claimed 10 golds, 10 silvers and 20 bronzes.

Tuesday will see athletes vie for four gold medals, four silvers and eight bronzes in the 68 kg and 76 kg classes of women's freestyle wrestling and in the 60 kg and 67 kg classes of men’s Greco-Roman wrestling.

On the final day of the competition on Wednesday, wrestlers will compete in the men’s Greco-Roman event in the 77 kg, 87 kg, 97 kg and 130 kg classes.

Wrestlers of host country Indonesia remained empty-handed on Wednesday morning, but their medal opportunities remain open, with the Indonesia wrestling team competing in all wrestling events.