Cuba’s Mijain Lopez Nunez wins historic fourth gold in 130kg Greco-Roman wrestling. Cuba’s Mijain Lopez Nunez couldn’t contain his elation at the end of his 130kg Greco-Roman wrestling bout: he had just achieved what no man had ever done before. The world’s greatest super heavyweight wrestler had just won his fourth consecutive gold medal at his fourth Olympic games. There was just one man who could have possibly stopped him, and he was standing right next to him, Iakobi Kajaia, 27, a European Games champion and a quarterfinalist at Rio 2016. But Lopez Nunez was determined not to give up the Olympic crown that he had worn for the past 13 years: he won it in 2008 and again in 2012 and 2016. The five-time world and reigning Pan-American champion then faced his rival of many years, Turkey’s Riza Kayaalp, in the semifinal. The reigning world champion is one of the few wrestlers to have beaten Lopez Nunez: it was in the 2015 World finals. But undeterred, the Cuban athlete, who took down the 31-year-old in the semi-finals at London 2012 and in the final of Rio 2016, won the match 2-0.
