As for Lugo, the silver medalist became the third Cuban to reach a Gold Medal Match in three days of wrestling competition.
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Serbia and Aremenia took the final two Greco-Roman wrestling gold medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics. He is the top ranked wrestler in the world at 66 kg, and won last year’s World Wrestling Championships.
In a battle of past world champions, Rasul Chunayev of Azerbaijan picked up an 8-0 technical fall over Ryu Hansu from South Korea for the bronze while world No.10 Shmagi Bolkvadze of Georgia, a 2014 junior world champion, bagged another bronze with a 1-0 win. He made it to the repechage round, where he could at least win bronze, but got stifled by Tomohiro Inoue.
After Islam-Beka Albiev suffered an early loss in the 66 kg tournament, Islam Magomedov represented Russia’s only hope of winning a wrestling medal for a third straight day.
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Artur Aleksanyan gave Armenia their second ever Olympic gold by triumphing in the men’s 98 kilogram Greco-Roman final at Carioca Arena 2 in Rio de Janeiro. Aleksanyan added another point to take a 3-0 victory. Bronze medals went to Turkey’s Celk Ildem who did a backflip to celebrate his win and Iran’s Ghasem Rezaei. Its previous gold also came in wrestling. He is now the first Armenian athlete in any sport to win multiple Olympic medals.
