Ghasem Gholamreza Rezaei claims wrestling gold

Ghasem Gholamreza Rezaei of Iran has won the gold medal in the 96kg category of the men's Greco-Roman wrestling.

The experienced heavyweight defeated Rustram Totrov 3-0 to claim his country's third gold medal in the event at the Games.

Sweden's Jimmy Lidberg and Armenian Artur Aleksanya had earlier picked up the bronze medal.

Meanwhile, Cuba's Yunior Estrada Falcon and Belarusian Tsimafei Dzeinichenka finished just outside of the medal places.

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