{"id":6800,"date":"2024-08-08T07:40:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T07:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/olympic-wrestling-mijain-lopez-makes-history-with-fifth-gold-medal\/"},"modified":"2024-08-08T07:40:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T07:40:22","slug":"olympic-wrestling-mijain-lopez-makes-history-with-fifth-gold-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/olympic-wrestling-mijain-lopez-makes-history-with-fifth-gold-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic wrestling: Mijain Lopez makes history with fifth gold medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Cuban wrestler Mijain Lopez became the first athlete to win five consecutive individual Olympic gold medals in the same event with victory in the 130kg Greco-Roman category.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lopez, who turns 42 in two weeks, defeated Chile&#8217;s Yasmani Acosta to take the record outright.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He previously held the title jointly with four-time successive winners 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).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having come out of retirement after a three-year absence from the mat, Lopez beat world champion Amin Mirzazadeh in the quarter-finals before beating the Cuban-born Acosta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has lost just one of his 23 contests at the Olympics, in the quarter-finals of the 2004 Athens Games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The United States&#8217; Amit Elor won gold in the women&#8217;s freestyle 68kg event, beating Meerim Zhumanazarova of Kyrgyzstan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/olympics\/articles\/cvg4403mm38o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuban wrestler Mijain Lopez became the first athlete to win five consecutive individual Olympic gold medals in the same event with victory in the 130kg Greco-Roman category. Lopez, who turns 42 in two weeks, defeated Chile&#8217;s Yasmani Acosta to take the record outright. He previously held the title jointly with four-time successive winners Carl Lewis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6802,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800\/revisions\/6802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}