How Aman Sehrawat lost 4.6 kg in 10 hours ahead of Paris Olympics 2024 bronze medal match: Wrestler Aman Sehrawat’s weight suddenly increased to 61.5 kg after losing in the semi-finals. After this, he reduced it by 4.6 kg so that he could win the bronze medal.
Wrestler Aman Sehrawat became the youngest Indian Olympian to win a bronze medal (individual event) in the freestyle category. Less than a month after his 21st birthday (born on 16 July 2003), India got its sixth medal in the 57 kg Paris Olympics 2024. Aman defeated Puerto Rico’s Darian Toi Cruz 13-5 in the bronze medal match.
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Aman became the seventh Indian wrestler to win a medal in the Olympics. During the bronze medal match, Aman suffered an injury to his nose, despite this he stood firm. After winning this bronze medal match, Aman said that his weight was increased before the bronze medal match of wrestling, so he also reduced it. Aman said that he did jogging in the gym at night. He went outside the wrestling arena and wore a windcheater jacket and did all this for 2-3 hours.
Due to which the weight was reduced. After losing to champion Rei Higuchi in the semi-finals on Thursday, Aman’s weight was shown as 61.5 kg, so Aman had a big challenge before going on the mat for the bronze medal.
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India’s youngest Olympic bronze medallist wrestler had to lose 4.5 kgs in a stipulated time of 10 hours before the mandatory weigh-in on the second day to qualify for the 57 kg category. After this, when Aman got on the weighing machine on the second day, he accomplished his mission along with coach Jagmander Singh and Virender Dahiya.
Aman reduced his weight by 4.6 kg to 56.9 kg and brought it closer to his weight category i.e. ’57 KG Olympic Freestyle Wrestling’. Keep in mind that Vinesh Phogat’s weight was found to be 100 grams more before the final of 50 kg freestyle wrestling, due to which she was disqualified.
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This is how Aman Sehrawat lost weight
On Thursday, Aman got into weight loss mode after losing his semifinal bout against Japan’s Rei Higuchi at 6:30 pm. The ‘mission’ began with an hour-and-a-half mat session in which two senior coaches made him stand up and wrestle, followed by an hour-long hot bath session. At 12:30 pm, he went to the gym, where Aman ran on the treadmill for an hour without stopping.
Sweating out helped him lose weight. After this, he was given a 30-minute break, followed by five sessions of 5-minute sauna bath. By the end of the last session, Aman still weighed 900 grams more. Then he was given a massage, after which he was asked to jog. After this, there were five 15-minute running sessions. By 4:30 in the morning, Aman weighed 56.9 kg, that is, 100 grams less. After this, the coach and the wrestler heaved a sigh of relief.
The coach measured Aman Sehrawat’s weight every hour
Meanwhile, during the training season, Aman was given lukewarm water with lemon and honey and some coffee to drink. After this, Aman could not sleep. Aman said- I watched videos of wrestling matches all night. Coach Dahiya said, ‘We kept checking his weight every hour. We did not sleep the whole night, not even during the day.’
Dahiya said- Losing weight is a normal thing for us, but because of what happened the previous day (with Vinesh), there was pressure, a lot of pressure. We could not lose another medal. All the hard work was successful when Aman won the bronze medal by defeating Puerto Rico’s Darian Cruz on Friday and became India’s youngest Olympic medalist.
India’s medal winners in wrestling so far
1. KD Jadhav
Bronze Medal, Helsinki Olympics (1952)
2. Sushil Kumar
Bronze Medal, Beijing Olympics (2008)
Silver Medal: London Olympics (2012)
3. Yogeshwar Dutt
Haryana wrestler’s bet worked in the repechage
Bronze Medal: London Olympics (2012)
4. Sakshi Malik
Bronze Medal: Rio Olympics (2016)
5. Ravi Kumar Dahiya
Silver Medal: Tokyo Olympics (2020)
6. Bajrang Punia
Bronze Medal: Tokyo Olympics (2020)
7. Aman Sehrawat
Bronze Medal: Paris Olympics (2024)
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)