17th Mediterranean Games - Wrestling

MERSIN

Turkish women's wrestling team won three gold and two silver medals in women's wrestling at 2013 Mediterrenean Games in Turkey's Mersin province.

Turkey's Elif Jale Yesilirmak, Yasemin Adar and Hafize Sahin won gold medal on women's freestyle wrestling at 2013 MedGames.

Elif Jale Yesilirmak clinched gold in women's 63 kg freestyle wrestling.

Yesilirmak was followed by Italian Maria Diana with silver and Spanish Irene Garcia and Greek Agoro Papavasileiou with bronze.

Women's 72 kg freestyle wrestling

Turkish Yasemin Adar won the gold medal in women's 72 kg freestyle wrestling on Monday.

Egypt's Nadia Ahmad got the silver, whereas Spanish Auroa Fajardo won bronze in the same category.

Women's 59 kg freestyle wrestling

Turkish Hafize Sahin got gold medal by winning all of four games in women's 59 kg freestyle wrestling.

Egyptian Haiat Youssef won silver while Tunisian Hela Riabi got bronze.

Sahin told AA that "Turkey's women's wrestling team completed the MedGames with 3 gold medals. We are happy to reach our goals".

Two silver medals

Burcu Kepic Gumus in women's 51 kg and Sumeyye Sezer in women's 48 kg also won silver medal in the MedGames.

Sezer who won silver in women's 48 kg said "l am very sad that l could not win gold medal".

Sezer also said "my goal from now on is 2016 Olympics and if we host, 2020 Olympics."

In women's 51 kg, Burcu Kepic Gumus also won silver medal in the MedGames.

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