London: The Islamic Republic of Iran on Sunday has won its first gold medal in the wrestling event of London Olympics 2012.
The five-time world champion, Hamid Soryan, beat Rovshan Bayramov of Azerbaijan 2-0, 1-0 to become the first Iranian to win a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling.
Iran has 30 overall medals in freestyle but had only two, a silver and a bronze, in Greco-Roman before Sunday.
Bayramov, the defending world champion, lost in the Olympic final for the second straight time. He fell to Nazir Mankiev of Russia in Beijing.
Peter Modos of Hungary and Mingiyan Semenov of Russia won bronze medals.
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