From: NewNowNext
As the Rio 2016 Olympics come to a close we’re taking a look back at the week in wrestling, one of the Games’ oldest and most primal sports.
Did you know that in ancient Greece, the Olympic wrestlers competed naked? It’s a shame how times have changed.
Below, meet 15 stunning men from the wrestling mats in Rio:
1
Taha Akgül
Turkey
Gold
2
Reineris Salas Perez
Cuba
3
Pedro Francisco Ceballos
Venezuela
4
Jordan Burroughs
United States
5
J’den Michael Tbory Cox
United States
Bronze
His partner,
Amarhajy Mahamedau
Belarus
ain’t too bad, either.
6
Hassan Ali Azam Yazdani Charati
Iran
Gold
7
Zelimkhan Khadjiev
France
And
Sosuke Takatani
Japan
😏
8
Migran Arutyunyan
Armenia
Silver
9
Artur Aleksanyan
Armenia
Gold
10
Carl Fredrik Stefan Schoen
Sweden
11
Rami Antero Hietaniemi
Finland
12
Ismael Borrero Molina
Cuba
Gold
13
Shinobu Ota
Japan
14
Viktor Nemeš
Serbia
15
Yang Bin
China
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