Dake, a bronze medallist at this weight a year ago in the Olympic Games, beat the Slovakian Taimuraz Salkazanov in a re-run of last year's World Championship final.

Dake won the final 3-1, with bronze medals going to Italy's Frank Chamizo and the Iranian Yones Emami.

Dake's gold medal helped the US secure the men's team freestyle title on the penultimate day of competition, and was one of three medals won by the nation at Stark Arena today.

Thomas Gilman and J'den Cox both won silver.

Cox upgraded from under-92kg bronze to silver, but lost to the same opponent who defeated him in Oslo a year ago - Kamran Ghasempour.

The Iranian edged the final 2-0.

Azerbaijan's Osman Nurmagomedov and the Georgian Miriani Maisuradze won bronze medals.

Zelimkhan Abakarov, representing Albania, beat Gilman 7-2 in the under-57kg final to earn the country's first-ever wrestlng world title.

Mediterranean Games gold medallist Abakarov formerly represented Russia, but switched allegiance to Albania this year.

Russian athletes are banned from this and all United World Wrestling events because of the war in Ukraine.

Mongolia's Zandanbudyn Zanabazar and American-born Stevan Mićić, who represents the host nation, earned bronze medals.