Nagoya Para Games; Gholami downed a Japanese judoka

Mousa Gholami, Iran’s visually-impaired national judoka in the under-95 kg category, defeated host-country competitor Matsumoto by ippon in his opening match at the fifth Para Asian Games and advanced to the next round, according to IRNA (Telegram).

Separately, Mehdi Barchlou, who had beaten Pachko of the Philippines in the first round of the under-81 kg visually-impaired division, lost his second-round match to Zhang Yang of China and must wait to see if Zhang reaches the final before Barchlou can compete for a bronze, IRNA (Telegram) reported.