BEIJING (AP) -Manuchar Kvirkelia has turned two strong moves into a two-period victory over China's Chang Yongxiang in the Greco-Roman 74-kilogram weight class, giving Georgia its first Olympic wrestling gold medal.

Kvirkelia's decisive 6-0, 3-0 victory Wednesday came in the same week Russian troops stormed through Georgia. The gold also was the country's first in Beijing.

Kvirkelia used a 5-point throw to prematurely end the first period. Any period ends when a wrestler takes a 6-0 lead.

He added a 2-point throw on a gut wrench in the second to clearly frustrate Chang, who settled for silver.

The bronze medalists were Christophe Guenot, whose brother Steeve won France's first wrestling gold in 84 years at 66 kg minutes before, and 2007 world champion Yavor Yanakiev of Bulgaria.