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Turkey bags bronze medals in wrestling championships
Turkey's Ozturk and Bilici win bronze medals in men's 55-kg and 63-kg Greco-Roman categories, respectively
26.10.2018 - Update : 27.10.2018
By Mehmet Yilmaz
BUDAPEST
Turkish wrestlers Ekrem Ozturk and Rahman Bilici won bronze medals in World Wrestling Championships in Hungarian capital Budapest.
In men's 55-kg Greco-Roman category, Ozturk defeated Armenian wrestler Norayr Hakhoyan 4-0 to win bronze.
Bilici, competing in men's 63-kg Greco-Roman category, defeated his Egyptian rival Hasan Ahmed Mohamed 6-1.
More than 850 wrestlers from 97 countries are competing in Budapest to win one of the 30 world titles in freestyle, Greco-Roman, and women's wrestling.
The championships run through Oct. 28.
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