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\nThe legendary Cuban wrestler Mijain Lopez has done it again.
\nGold at Beijing 2008, London 2012, Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020, and now, after not having competed since the last Olympic Games three years ago, at Paris 2024 \u2014 five consecutive gold medals in the superheavyweight Greco-Roman competitions.
\nIn a remarkable display of skill and strength, Lopez defeated Acosta of Chile 6-0 and as a final gesture to his illustrious career, he removed his shoes and left them on the mat, symbolising his retirement.
\nThe bronzes went to Amin Mirzazadeh of Iran and Meng Lingzhe of China.
\nThis victory is historic as Lopez now holds five straight Olympic gold medals in an individual event. Beijing, London, Rio, Tokyo, Paris \u2014 it has never been done before in any individual Olympic event, summer or winter, men\u2019s or women\u2019s.
\nWith his victory, he broke a tie for four successive individual Olympic golds he shared with Carl Lewis (athletics\/long jump), Michael Phelps (swimming\/200m medley), Katie Ledecky (swimming\/800m freestyle), Al Oerter (athletics\/discus), Paul Elvstrom (sailing), and Kaori Icho (wrestling).
\nWhile Ireen W\u00fcst skated into the record books in 2022, becoming the first athlete to claim individual gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games, her consecutive medals came in two different events, not the same event. She won three in the 1500m and two in the 3000m, so her record doesn\u2019t match Lopez\u2019s five consecutive golds in the same event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
paris The legendary Cuban wrestler Mijain Lopez has done it again. Gold at Beijing 2008, London 2012, Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020, and now, after not having competed since the last Olympic Games three years ago, at Paris 2024 \u2014 five consecutive gold medals in the superheavyweight Greco-Roman competitions. In a remarkable display of skill and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":68537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68564,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68547\/revisions\/68564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}