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BEIJING (AP) -Saori Yoshida of Japan has won her second successive Olympic women's wrestling gold medal at 55 kilograms, pinning Chinese teenager Xu Li.

Yoshida has lost only one match in her international career, to American Marcie Van Dusen earlier this year. She bounced back from that loss with a series of easy victories in Beijing to become the first women's wrestler to win two Olympic golds.

Xu, who doesn't turn 19 until December, would have been the youngest Olympic wrestling gold medalist in any discipline. She lost the first period 2-0, then was pinned by Yoshida 43 seconds into the second.

Winning the bronze medals were Tonya Verbeek, who took Canada's second wrestling medal of the games, and Jackeline Renteria of Colombia. Carol Huynh of Canada earlier won the gold at 48 kg.

Van Dusen did not place Saturday.