Japan’s most successful showing at an overseas Olympics ended in the most fitting way possible on the final day of the Paris Games.
With another gold medal on the wrestling mat.
Yuka Kagami defeated American Kennedy Blades in the final match on the schedule at Champ-de-Mars Arena on Sunday to win the women’s freestyle 76-kg crown and give Japan its 20th gold medal in Paris.
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