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Asian Games 2018 Day Two: Iran Wins 3 Gold Medals

Pakdaman’s medal is the first fencing trophy for the country at the Asian Games since 1974 games hosted by Tehran
Asian Games 2018 Day Two: Iran Wins 3 Gold Medals
Asian Games 2018 Day Two: Iran Wins 3 Gold Medals

On the second day of the Asian Games of Jakarta, Iranian athletes won three medals Monday. Iran’s football team advanced to the next round and both men and women kabaddi teams celebrated their second victories.
Iran, which dominated the first day of freestyle wrestling games with two gold medals of Hassan Yazdani in 86kg and Alireza Karimi in 97kg, as well as bronze for Reza Atri in the 57kg category, showed power on the second day when 125kg wrestler, Parviz Hadi beat India’s Sumit Sumit 10-0 in the first match. 
With the same result, Hadi defeated the Kazakh Boltin Oleg in the quarterfinals to gain a semifinal ticket. Hadi then hammered Uzbek Davit Modzmanashvili 11-8 and got a chance to battle for gold against Zhiwei Deng of China which he did not miss and hammered the Chinese 7-0 to win the third gold for Iran freestyle wrestling team.

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