Mehdi Taghavi and Meisam Mostafa Jokar failed to capture medal at Olympic Games.

Two times freestyle world junior champion, Taghavi won Haislan Garcia from Canada in three periods (0-1, 1-1, and 5-1) but lost to 2007 world champion Ramasan Sahin from Turkey(0-3, 0-1). In Repechage, Taghavi lost to Geandri Garzon from Cuba (4-1, 0-2 and 0-2). Taghavi was one step away from win but he couldn’t make score from one leg take-down in last seconds in third period and went outside of the mat.

In 74kg, Meisam Mostafa Jokar had a poor performance and lost to Kiril Terziev (0-3, 1-3).

Sahin won 66kg gold medal and Buvaisar Saiteiv from Russia obtained his ninth gold medals at 74 kg.

Second day standings:

66kg: 1- Ramasan Sahin(Turkey) 2- AndriyStadnik(Ukraine) 3- Sushil Kumar(India) & Otar Tushishvili(Georgia) 5- Geandry Garzon(Cuba) & Leonid Spiridonov(Kazakhstan) 7- Irbek Farniev(Russia) 8- Batgorig Buyanjav(Mongolia) 9- Albert Batyrov(Belarus) 10- Mehdi Taghavi (Iran)

74kg:

1- Buvaisar Saitiev(Russia) 2- Soslan Tigiev(Uzbekistan) 3- Murad Gaidarov(Belarus) & Kiril Terziev(Bulgaria) 5- Ivan Fundora(Cuba) & Stefan Cheorghita(Romania) 7- Ben Askern(USA) 8- Arsen Gitinov(Kyrgyzstan) 9- Emzarios Bentinidis(Greece) 10- Ahmet Gulhan(Turkey)

 Photo: AP

Photo: Ali Kaveh 

Photo: Ali Kaveh   

Photo: Ali Kaveh