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August 5, 2021 at 23:10 JST
Japan's Risako Kawai celebrates after winning the gold medal defeating Belarus's Iryna Kurachkina during the women's 57kg Freestyle wrestling final match at the 2020 Summer Olympics on Aug. 5 in Tokyo. (AP Photo)
Japan’s Risako Kawai won her second Olympic wrestling gold, defeating Belarus’ Iryna Kurachkina 5-0 in the women’s 57-kilogram freestyle final on Thursday, a day after her sister Yukako won the freestyle middleweight final.
Kawai won the 63kg category at the 2016 Games. Her younger sister, Yukako, won the 62kg class on Wednesday.
They became the second pair of Japanese siblings to win gold medals in Tokyo after Uta Abe and her brother Hifumi in the judo.
American Helen Maroulis defeated Mongolia’s Khongorzul Boldsaikhan 11-0 in a bronze medal match. Maroulis won Olympic gold at 53kg in 2016. She became the first U.S. woman to win more than one Olympic medal.
Bulgaria’s Evelina Nikolova won the other bronze, defeating the Russian Olympic Committee’s Valeria Koblova 5-0.
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