Olympic Wrestling: Hitomi Obara takes wrestling gold

Hitomi Obara of Japan wins her first Olympic gold medal in the women's 48-kg freestyle wrestling category.

Obara came from behind to beat Mariya Stadnyk of Azerbaijan, the Olympic bronze medallist in Beijing who also lost to Obara in the 2011 World Championship final.

Carol Huynh of Canada and Clarissa Chun of the United States won bronze, with Chun giving the United States its first wrestling medal of London 2012.

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