Saori Yoshida retained her Olympic champion in the women's 55kg freestyle wrestling on Saturday after defeating host wrestler Xu Li in the final.

Yoshida dominated the final, giving her opponent no chance and winning the two bouts 2-0, 5-0.

The 25-year-old Yoshida was also the winner of the last five world championships from 2002 to 2007 besides her triumph in Athens four years ago when women's wrestling made its Olympic debut.

She also became the first female wrestler to retain the Olympic champion.

Jackline Renteria of Colombia defeated Ana Paval of Romania with a victory by fall, to earn Colombia the second medal at the Beijing Olympics.

Another bronze medal went to Tonya Berbeek of Canada. She took the second medal for Canada following teammate Carol Huynh's gold win in the women's 48kg category.

(Xinhua News Agency August 16, 2008)