Gol Minassian sets three new tournament records on his way to victory in weightlifting over 109kg, Akhmed Tazhdinov comes close to defeating Iranian opponent in freestyle wrestling 97kg final, Bahrain advances to 19th Asia He added two more gold medals to his total at competitions. Hangzhou, China yesterday.
Armenian-born Bahrain Minassian, 28, successfully defended his title in the over-109kg category at the 2023 Asian Weightlifting Championships held in South Korea in May last year, winning 212kg in the snatch and 245kg in the clean and jerk for a total of 457kg. and set three new Asian Games records, all three of which are currently in progress.
Iran’s Ali Daboudi finished in a distant second place with a weight of 192kg-234kg-426kg, winning the silver medal, while Rustam Djangabayev of Uzbekistan won the bronze medal with a weight of 190kg-233kg-423kg.
Meanwhile, in the 97kg freestyle wrestling final, 20-year-old Russian-born Bahraini wrestler Tazhdinov defeated Iran’s Mojtaba Golayzi 6-1.
Tazhdinov’s Asian Games title win comes just two weeks after he became Bahrain’s first world wrestling champion by defeating Azerbaijan’s Magomedkhan Magomedov in the 97kg freestyle wrestling final at the 2023 World Wrestling Championships in Belgrade, Serbia. was caused.
The wrestler had also won a gold medal at the 2023 Asian Wrestling Championships held in Astana, Kazakhstan in April last year.
Bahrain currently ranks ninth in the medal standings at the Games with 12 gold, three silver and five bronze medals.