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Bulgarian wrestler Taybe Yusein wins Olympic bronze in Tokyo

Photo: BOC, Kostadin Andonov

Wrestler Taybe Yusein has won the bronze medal in the 62kg category at the Tokyo Olympic tournament, winning against Lyubov Ovcharova of the Russian Olympic Committee. The 30-year-old Bulgarian was unstoppable and won the match for just 56 seconds.

Bulgaria's other female representative in this sport Evelina Nikolova wrestles for the bronze medal in the 57 kg category tomorrow. Today she achieved two victories, but in the semifinals lost against European champion Irina Kurochkina from Belarus.




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