Last Updated on 08/08/2024 by Ankita
Aman Sehrawat, Paris Olympics 2024: India’s young wrestler Aman Sehrawat missed out on creating history in the Paris Olympics 2024. He suffered a crushing defeat of 10-0 in the semi-final match of the men’s 57 kg freestyle category. Now Aman will play for the bronze medal. If he had won the semi-final, Aman would have secured the silver medal.
Aman’s semifinal match on Thursday (August 8) was against top seed Rei Higuchi of Japan, in which he lost. However, before this, Aman had defeated Albania’s Zelimkhan Abakarov 12-0 by technical superiority in his quarterfinal.
In the semi-finals, he collapsed in just 2 minutes
Aman, the Asian Championship gold medallist and the country’s only male wrestler to qualify for the Olympics, easily defeated Abakarov in the quarter-finals. But in the semi-finals, he lost to the Japanese wrestler in just 2 minutes and 14 seconds. However, he still has a chance to win bronze.
lost his parents in childhood
21-year-old Aman Sehrawat’s journey to the Olympics has not been easy at all. Coming from a Jat family, Aman hails from Birohar in Jhajjar district of Haryana. He lost his parents when he was just 11 years old. First, Aman’s mother died of a heart attack when he was 10 years old. Then about a year later, his father also passed away.
After this, Aman and his younger sister Pooja Sehrawat were left in the care of their elder uncle Sudhir Sehrawat and an aunt. After the tragic death of his parents, Aman was suffering from severe depression, in such a situation his grandfather Mangeram Sehrawat took care of him and played an important role in recovering from it.
Such has been Aman’s journey in wrestling
Amidst all this, he continued his passion for wrestling and started training under coach Lalit Kumar. Aman came into limelight by winning his first national championship title in 2021. Aman won the bronze medal in the 57 kg category at the 2022 Asian Games.
Then he won the gold medal in the 2023 Asian Wrestling Championship. In January 2024, he brought glory to the country by winning the gold medal in the Zagreb Open Wrestling Tournament. He was the only male wrestler from India to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)