Asian Games Day 7: Iran adds two gold medals to tally

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Asian Games Day 7: Iran adds two gold medals to tally

TEHRAN – Iran kept up its winning ways at the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia with two gold medals added to its tally on Saturday. Sohrab Moradi broke weightlifting's longest standing world record on his way to gold in the men's 94kg class at the Asian Games. Moradi lifted 189kg in the opening discipline to better the snatch record set at 188kg in 1999 by Greece's Akakios Kakiasvilis. The Rio Olympics gold medalist went on to lift a new Asian Games record total of 410kg after a clean and jerk of 221kg. Karate practitioner Sajad Ganjzadeh ...

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Aug 25, 2018

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