Beslan Mudranov delivered Russia's first gold medal at the Rio 2016 olympics with a golden score win over Yeldos Smetov of Kazakhstan in the men's 60kg judo final.
The International Judo Federation was outspoken in backing Russian athletes' right to compete in Rio despite being threatened by a blanket ban over state-sponsored doping scandal.
Naohisa Takato of Japan and Diyorbek Urozboev of Uzbekistan claimed bronze.
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