Olympics-Wrestling-Esmaeili and Novikov win Greco-Roman golds


Paris 2024 Olympics - Wrestling - Men's Greco-Roman 67kg Final - Champ-de-Mars Arena, Paris, France - August 08, 2024. Saeid Esmaeili Leivesi of Iran celebrates winning gold in the match against Parviz Nasibov of Ukraine. REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi

PARIS (Reuters) - Iran's Saeid Esmaeili won the men's 67kg Greco-Roman wrestling gold at the Paris Olympics on Thursday.

Ukraine's Parviz Nasibov claimed silver while Cuba's Luis Orta of Cuba and Hasrat Jafarov of Azerbaijan took bronze.

Bulgaria's Semen Novikov clinched the 87kg gold, while Iran's Alireza Mohmadipiani won silver.

Ukraine's Zhan Beleniuk and Denmark's Turpal Bisultanov took bronze.

(Reporting by Amlan Chakraborty; Editing by Alison Williams and Ken Ferris)

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