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Updated: Sat Aug. 16 2008 11:06:41 PM
CTV.ca News Staff
Freestyle wrestler Carol Huynh won Canada’s first gold medal at the Beijing Olympics on Saturday, as her family cheered from their home in Hazelton, B.C.
She defeated Japan’s Chiharu Icho in the women’s 48-kilogram final at the China Agricultural University Gymnasium on Saturday to win her first career Olympic medal.
Huynh guaranteed the medal win after beating Tatyana Bakatyk of Kazakhstan in her 48-kilogram semifinal match Saturday.
“I knew that I had to set the pace, set the tone and make sure that I wrestled my match and not just wait around to see what she was going to do,” Huynh told reporters afterwards. “And it worked.”
Huynh, 27, won gold at last year’s Pan American Games and a bronze medal at the 2005 world championship.
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