Shinobu Ota ended Japan's wrestling gold drought at the 2018 Asian Games on Tuesday, his win in the men's Greco-Roman 60-kilogram event stopping a run of eight minor medals.The 24-year-old from Aomori was ruled to have beaten Kyrgyzstan's Kanybek Zholchubekov 8-3, the win coming on a victory by fall."If I didn't win we would still be without a (wrestling) gold medal, so the pressure was on," said Ota, the 59 kg silver medalist at the Rio Olympics in 2016. "I started out nervous but the team has more events tomorrow and I hope this gives us some momentum."Earlier, Hiroe Minagawa won Japan's …READ FULL ARTICLE
