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Thursday, August 14, 2008

Tuvshinbayar Naidan celebrates his victory

Tuvshinbayar Naidan, competing in his first got a waza-ari win over Askhat Zhitkeyev of Kazakhstan and gave Mongolia its first gold medal of the Beijing Olympic Games. At the 2006 Doha Asian Games, Naidan finished in joint fifth place in both the Men's +100kg and the open weightclass division.

Azerbaijan's Movlud Miraliyev won the first bronze medal by defeating Przemyslaw Matyjaszek of Poland with a waza-ari and a yuko, while of Netherlands, the 2008 European champion, claimed the second by defeating Levan Zhorzholiani of Georgia with two yuko scores.

 
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