Olympics: Penn State’s David Taylor wins wrestling gold in Tokyo

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The medals are coming in for some of Penn State’s finest world-class athletes. On Thursday, one of the wrestling program’s top performers in recent years became an Olympic gold medalist.

David Taylor had the gold medal awarded to him following his gold medal match victory over Iran’s Hassan Yazdanicharati, the top-seeded wrestler in the Olympic field for the 86kg weight class. Yazdanicharati is a two-time world champion, but Taylor improved to 3-0 all-time against the Iranian wrestling star.

Taylor’s matches combined to last a total of 10 minutes and 49 seconds, with none of his matches lasting the full six minutes. Taylor notched three technical falls before time expired.

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