Several countries – including Armenia, Georgia, Serbia, and Ukraine – scored their first gold medals of the Rio Olympic games on August 16, although some of the events did not pass without controversy.
Rio Olympics, Day 11
![Oleh Vernyayev winning gold for Ukraine in the men's parallel bars.](https://gdb.rferl.org/bf07b124-b0d6-44a5-a101-2cb6a5e181ab_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Oleh Vernyayev winning gold for Ukraine in the men's parallel bars.
![Davor Stefanek of Serbia and Migran Arutyunyan of Armenia compete in the final of the men's Greco-Roman 66-kilogram wrestling. Stefanek took gold.](https://gdb.rferl.org/172049bc-1e53-4d81-8921-a6fb13a1b8a2_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Davor Stefanek of Serbia and Migran Arutyunyan of Armenia compete in the final of the men's Greco-Roman 66-kilogram wrestling. Stefanek took gold.
![Artur Aleksanyan of Armenia defeated Cuba's Yasmany Daniel Lugo Cabrera to take gold in the 98-kilogram wrestling final.](https://gdb.rferl.org/ad5a0a33-d2da-46eb-883c-a1ec2f494f0b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Artur Aleksanyan of Armenia defeated Cuba's Yasmany Daniel Lugo Cabrera to take gold in the 98-kilogram wrestling final.
![U.S. gymnast Simone Biles competes in the final of the women's floor event of the artistic gymnastics, where she took a fourth gold medal.](https://gdb.rferl.org/cf4fc5c2-aa03-4f88-a1ab-289fa464a832_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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U.S. gymnast Simone Biles competes in the final of the women's floor event of the artistic gymnastics, where she took a fourth gold medal.