Indian wrestler Aman Sehrawat will take on Puerto Rico’s Darian Cruz in the bronze medal match of the men’s 57kg event at the Paris 2024 Olympics wrestling competition on Friday.
Aman Sehrawat’s bronze medal match will start at around 9:45 PM and will be available on live streaming and telecast in India.
Aman Sehrawat made the bronze medal match after losing 10-0 in the semi-finals to top-seeded Japanese wrestler Rei Higuchi, a former world champion and silver medal winner from the Rio 2016 Olympics, on Thursday.
Earlier, Aman cruised past Macedonia’s Vladimir Egorov, a former European champion, by a 10-0 technical superiority in his round of 16 bout before beating Albania’s Zelimkhan Abakarov, a former world champion and fourth seed, 12-0 in the quarter-finals.
Darian Cruz, meanwhile, is a bronze medallist from the Pan American Games last year. He has also won three medals at the Pan American Championships, including a silver in Buenos Aires last year.
The 21-year-old Aman is the only Indian wrestler competing in the men’s event at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Ravi Dahiya had won the silver medal in the same event at Tokyo 2020. Aman, interestingly, had bested Dahiya in the Indian wrestling trials to earn the right to represent the country in the men’s 57kg category at Paris 2024.
India have won a total of seven medals – two silvers and five bronze – in wrestling at the Games. All but one have been bagged by men.
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