Indian wrestler Aman Sehrawat has won bronze medal in men's freestyle 57 kg weight category in Paris Olympics-2024.
With this, the number of medals for India in this Olympics has gone up to six.
In the match required for the bronze medal, he defeated his opponent Darian Toi Cruz of Puerto Rico 13-5.
Earlier, Aman Sehrawat had to face defeat in the semi-final match held on Thursday.
In the semi-final, Aman was up against Rei Higuchi of Japan. In this match, Aman had to face defeat by 10-0.
Aman made it to the semi-finals by defeating Albania's Abakarov 12-0 in the quarter-final match. Aman defeated former European champion Vladimir Egorov 10-0 in the first round.
India had not yet won any medal in wrestling in this Olympics.
21-year-old Aman made a great start to his Paris Olympics campaign, defeating 2022 European champion Vladimir Agarov 10-0 in the Round of 16.
Aman also surpassed PV Sindhu's record to become India's youngest medal winner, at 21 years and 24 days old.
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