Olympics-Wrestling-Kiyooka and Tazhudinov win freestyle golds


Paris 2024 Olympics - Wrestling - Men's Freestyle 65kg Final - Champ-de-Mars Arena, Paris, France - August 11, 2024. Kotaro Kiyooka of Japan celebrates winning gold in the match against Rahman Amouzadkhalili of Iran. REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi

PARIS (Reuters) -Kotaro Kiyooka of Japan won the men's 65kg freestyle gold, while Iran's Rahman Amouzadkhalili took silver at the Paris Olympics on Sunday.

Sebastian Rivera of Puerto Rico and Albania's Islam Dudaev took bronze.

Bahrain's Akhmed Tazhudinov won the 97kg gold leaving Georgia's Givi Matcharashvili with the silver.

Magomedkhan Magomedov of Azerbaijan and Iran's Amirali Azarpira took bronze.

In the women's 76kg, Japan's Yuka Kagami won the gold while Kennedy Blades of the U.S. bagged silver.

Milaimy Marin of Cuba and Tatiana Renteria of Colombia won bronze.

(Reporting by Amlan Chakraborty in Paris; Editing by Hugh Lawson)

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