Sports Indian wrestler Aman Sehrawat defeated Cruz on Friday (August 9) at the Paris Olympics 2024 with a scoreline of 13-5 to salvage bronze medal for his country. Earlier, Aman Sehrawat met Jap top seed Rei Higuchi within the leisure-four round and got thrashed by technical superiority. Aman was as soon as dominated by the Japenese wrestler within the 57kg free-vogue semifinal on Thursday (August 8). Within factual two minutes of the predominant duration, Japan’s Higuchi Rei accomplished the game within the semifinal making the job too powerful more uncomplicated for the officials and himself qualifying for the finals.
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In quarter-finals, Aman Sehrawat demolished frail world champion Zelimkhan Abakarov of Albania by technical superiority to seal a location within the 57kg free-vogue semifinal. Aman confirmed enormous rhtyhm as he toyed with the Albanian within the second round. The 21-12 months-old Wrestling well-known particular person of India locked his legs before all the issues up of the second round and was him over more than one times to compose eight straight elements to right a 12-0 victory.
Sehrawat was as soon as the supreme male wrestler from India at the Paris Olympics. He was the sixth Indian male wrestler to salvage an Olympic medal, following KD Jadhav (bronze in Helsinki 1952), Sushil Kumar (bronze in Beijing 2008 and silver in London 2012), Yogeshwar Dutt (bronze in London 2012), Ravi Dahiya (silver in Tokyo 2020), and Bajrang Punia (bronze in Tokyo 2020).
On Saturday, Reetika Hooda, India’s remaining competitor at the Video games, will open up her campaign within the ladies’s freestyle 76kg tournament, aiming to add to the medal tally.
Moreover, India’s probabilities for one other medal are mute alive in wrestling. Vinesh Phogat, who was as soon as disqualified from her gold medal match within the ladies’s 50kg tournament for being overweight, has appealed the dedication to the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). The CAS has permitted her attraction and will hear both Vinesh and United World Wrestling (UWW) sooner than making a remaining dedication sooner than the conclude of the Olympics.