Saravi beat Armenia’s Artur Aleksanyan in a difficult final match of the 97-kilogram weight category late on Wednesday to become an Olympic gold medalist. 

Greco-Roman wrestler Amin Mirzazadeh and female taekwondo player Mobina Nematzadeh had won two bronze medals for Iran on Tuesday and Wednesday. 

Two Iranian Greco-Roman wresters will compete for gold medals on Thursday while Iranian free-style wrestlers also have high hopes of winning medals in the Paris Olympics in the coming days.