Iranian athlete Mohsen Beheshti Rad snatched the gold medal in the men's speed final at the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation's Ice Climbing World Championships in Saas-Fee.
Beheshti Rad was only the seventh-best qualifier earlier in the day, and after the first effort of 8.65sec in the final, he built on that with a 7.17 in the second and then a winning 6.90 on the third attempt at the Ice Dome in the Swiss resort.
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