Aman Sehrawat Wrestling Bronze Medal Bout Highlights, Paris 2024 Olympics: Aman beats Puerto Rico’s Darian Doi Cruz to win bronze in freestyle 57kg category

Aman Sehrawat - 21 years & 24 days (Bronze Medal, Wrestling - Paris 2024 Olympics)

PV Sindhu - 21 years, 1 month & 14 days (Silver Medal, Badminton - Rio 2016 Olympics)

Vijender Singh - 22 years, 9 months & 24 days (Bronze Medal, Boxing - Beijing 2008 Olympics)

Neeraj Chopra - 23 years, 7 months & 14 days (Gold Medal, Athletics - Tokyo 2021 Olympics)

With Aman’s bronze medal, India continued to secure a medal in wrestling at every edition of the Olympic Games since 2008.

Aman has done it! 

Desperate move from Darian Toi Cruz and he concedes another point as Aman widens the gap to eight points. 

With 37 seconds remaining in this bout, Aman wins two more points and has a chance to win this bout with technical superiority. 

This is turning in Aman’s way as he pins down Darian Toi for two points and gets into a five-point lead. He is smelling bronze here! 

Aman is not in any mood to let this bout go without a real fight. After conceding two points, the 21-year-old from Jajjar gets back two points. 

Darian Toi gains an advantage on Aman at the start of the second half and wins two points for his move on Aman from behind. 

Aman ends the first half with two more points after pushing and pinning Darian Toi once again. 6-3 lead for the Indian after the end of the first three minutes.

Aman wastes no time and pushes him outside quickly to get into the lead! Wow, what a topsy-turvy bout this has been till now. 

Till now it has been a really close contest with both wrestlers being very busy. Darian with a big move on Aman as he gets a double hold on Aman’s legs and wins two points to get into the lead. 

Aman targets Darian Toi’s shoulders and pins him outside the blue zone to get two points. Aman is in the lead with a prophylactic move. 

Darian gets a single leg hold on Aman right away and the Indian is on the defensive move. Darian Toi Cruz takes him out of the blue zone to win the first point. 

Here we go! Fifth-seed India’s Aman has come in the middle. He is wearing a blue singlet and his Puerto Rican rival is in white-red. 

- 2023 Asian champion in 57kg freestyle. Bronze medallist at the 2022 Asian Games (held in 2023).

- Won gold in 57kg freestyle at the 2022 U23 World Championships.

- Youngest male wrestler at the Paris 2024 Olympics. 

- Bronze medallist at the 2023 Pan American Games (57kg).

- Three-time Pan American Championships medallist (silver in 2022 and 2023 representing Puerto Rico, bronze in 2020 representing USA).

- NCAA Champion for Lehigh University (2017).

Just one more bout and we will have Aman on the mat b for his bronze medal bout! 

Aman’s bout is seventh on mat b and the first bout has started now. 

The live streaming of the Paris 2024 Olympics events will be available on the JioCinema website and app. The live broadcast will be available on Sports 18 and Sports 18 HD.

Aman lost his men’s 57kg wrestling semifinal to Japan’s Rei Higuchi 10-0 on Thursday. 

The first-seed from Japan ended the bout by technical superiority inside the first three minutes.

This means Aman will now fight in the bronze-medal match against Darian Toi Cruz of Puerto Rico. 

Hello and welcome to Sportstar’s LIVE coverage of Aman Sehrawat’s bronze medal bout in 57kg men’s freestyle wrestling at the Paris 2024 Olympics on Friday, August 9.

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