Cuba’s Mijaín López Núñez dominated Georgia’s Iakobi Kajaia to win his fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, surpassing the legendary “Russian Bear” Aleksandr Karelin as the greatest Greco-Roman wrestling Olympian of all time.
An unblemished path to his fourth gold
Mijaín López Núñez did not concede a single point during the course of his 9-0, 8-0 and 2-0 wins over Romania’s Alin Alexuc Ciurariu, Iran’s Amin Mirzazadeh and Turkey’s Riza Kayaalp, respectively, before his 5-0 victory over Kajaia in the 130kg gold medal match.