Bagdat Sabaz wins 67 kg bronze at the Astana World Championships, beating a Paris Olympic medallist 8-5

Kazakhstan's Greco-Roman wrestler Bagdat Sabaz has won a bronze medal in the 67 kg category at the World Championships in Astana. In the bronze-medal bout he defeated Azerbaijan's Hasrat Jafarov, a bronze medallist at the Paris Olympics, by 8-5.

The championships are under way at Barys Arena and run until 1 November. Wrestlers from across the Turkic world are regularly in the medal contests at the event.