Japan’s Daichi Takatani celebrates his silver medal during the men’s 74kg freestyle final against Uzbekistan’s Razambek Salambekovich Jamalov at the Champ-de-Mars Arena during the Summer Olympics in Paris on Saturday.
8:49 JST, August 11, 2024
PARIS – Daichi Takatani, 29, won a silver medal in the men’s 74kg freestyle wrestling final at the Paris Olympics on Saturday, losing to Razambek Salambekovitch Jamalov of Uzbekistan.
Takatani is the youngest of three siblings who are all wrestlers. The Paris Games will be his first participation in an Olympic competition.
At the 2023 World Championships, where he competed against many strong foreign rivals, he won a bronze medal in the men’s freestyle category up to 74 kg.
His World Championship medal was Japan’s first in nine years. The country’s last World Championship medal was won in 2014 by his older brother, Sosuke, who competed in three consecutive Olympics.
