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Iran’s Noroozi wins Olympic wrestling gold

The Columbian
Published: August 5, 2012, 5:00pm

LONDON (AP) — Omid Noroozi of Iran won the gold medal Monday in men’s 60-kilogram Greco-Roman wrestling at the London Olympics.

Noroozi, the defending world champion, beat Georgia’s Revaz Lashkhi 1-0, 1-0 to give Iran its second Greco-Roman medal in as many days.

Hamid Soryan won the country’s first Greco-Roman gold on Sunday.

Noroozi beat Kazakhstan’s Almat Kebispayev in a rematch of the 2011 world championship final, then took out Lashkhi for his first gold medal.

Russia’s Zaur Kuramagomedov and Japan’s Ryutaro Matsumoto won bronze medals.

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