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BEIJING -- Islam-Beka Albiev has won Russia's second Olympic Greco-Roman wrestling medal in as many matches in Beijing, defeating Vitaliy Rahimov of Azerbaijan in the 60-kilogram final.

According to governing body FILA's database, the 19-year-old Albiev is the second youngest wrestling gold medalist in Olympic history.

Albiev, who was eighth in last year's world championships, swept the two periods of the best-of-three match Tuesday, winning the first 2-0 and the second 4-0.

The teenager's victory came minutes after fellow Russian Nazyr Mankiev was the surprise winner at 55 kg after defeating three-time defending world champion Hamid Soryan of Iran in the quarterfinals.

The bronze medals were won by Ruslan Tiumenbaev of Kyrgyzstan and Nurbakyt Tengizbayev of Kazakhstan.

In the 55-kilogram final, the 21-year-old Bayramov lifted Mankiev for three points to take an early lead in the first period, but was immediately turned by Mankiev, who scored the final four points of the period.

The two tied at 2 in the second, with Bayramov again scoring first, but the 23-year-old Mankiev won because he scored last.

Mankiev was a surprise winner after beating the heavily favored Soryan -- Iran's three-time defending world champion -- in the quarterfinals.

The bronze medals were won by Roman Amoyan of Armenia and South Korea's Park Eun-chul.

Soryan has won three consecutive world titles and two Asian championship gold medals, but lost 3-1 on classification points after he tied 4-4 on technical points with Mankiev.

Mankiev then went on to beat Park in his semifinal.

Rahimov won his quarterfinal producing a shock by beating two-times Olympic champion Armen Nazarian of Bulgaria.

Nazarian narrowly fought past Japan's Makoto Sasamoto to make the quarterfinals but struggled against the Russian.

Rahimov then earned his place in the final by winning against Kazakh Nurbakyt Tengizbayez.

Information from Reuters and The Associated Press was used in this report.