Two Ohioans win gold medals in the Tokyo Olympics.

David Morris Taylor III

TOKYO OLYMPICS —

David Morris Taylor III out of Dayton, OH is an American freestyle and graduated folkstyle wrestler who currently competes at 86 kilograms. David Taylor scored a double-leg takedown with 17 seconds remaining to beat Iran’s Hassan Yazdani 4-3 and claim the wrestling gold metal in the men’s freestyle 86-kilogram class.

Yazdani is the No. 1 seed and won the 74kg class at the 2016 Olympics. Punia 4-2 for bronze. It was the first-ever Olympic wrestling medal for the country with about 34,000 people.

In the other bronze medal match, the Russian Olympic Committee’s Artur Naifonov defeated Uzbekistan’s Javrail Shapiev 2-0.

Taylor is from Ohio, attending St. Paris Graham (Ohio) High School just north of Dayton, OH.

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