It took Iraq's Murtadha Mahmood a while to find his perfect sport. From the age of 10 he took up wrestling, as his father was a wrestling champion, and then he switched to judo. But it has been the ancient Japanese martial art of jujitsu that has earned him a gold medal in the first Asian Martial Arts Games in Bangkok
After winning the men's 85-kg fighting system title with a 9-4 victory over Uzbekistan's Elyorbek Akbarov on Thursday, Mahmood wept tears of joy and declared: "I am so happy to be going home with a gold medal"
Having won a silver medal last year at a jujitsu world festival in Tehran, Iran, the 30-year-old Baghdad-born fighter went one better in his first Asian Games event, with the help of trainer Rabeh Jalal
