Aman has turn out to be the seventh wrestler to win a medal for India on the Olympics and the sixth Indian wrestler to win a bronze medal within the Video games.
Aman Sehrawat has made historical past by turning into the youngest Indian to win an Olympic medal in a person sport. The 21-year-old Asian medallist, now an an Olympic medallist as effectively, clinched the bronze within the males’s 57 kg freestyle wrestling after defeating Darian Cruz of Puerto Rico with a rating of 13-5 at Paris Olympics.
Life devoted to wrestling
Individuals typically say {that a} participant has “lived wrestling,” however in Aman Sehrawat’s case, that is actually true. When Aman Sehrawat was simply 11-years-old, his mom handed away. His father, who dreamed of Aman turning into a wrestler, determined to ship him to a wrestling academy, hoping to ease the ache of his mom’s loss. At that younger age, Aman was despatched to Delhi’s Chhatrasal Stadium, the place he spent half of his life close to the mats and grappling. Simply six months later, his father additionally handed away. Aman as soon as mentioned, “I’ll undoubtedly fulfil my father’s dream.”
Tribute to folks
After profitable the coveted bronze medal on the Tokyo Olympics, Aman mentioned, “My mother and father at all times wished me to be a wrestler. They didn’t know something concerning the Olympics, however they wished me to be a wrestler. I dedicate this medal to my mother and father and to the nation.”
Following the lack of their mother and father, Aman and his sister moved to their aunt’s home, the place she raised them as her personal kids. Aman continued to dwell at Chhatrasal Stadium, the place his coach Lalit’s room was close by. After profitable the bronze medal on the Asian Video games, Aman was given a separate room with a kitchen. On one wall in his room, he has written, “If profitable an Olympic medal was simple, everybody would do it.”
A journey of onerous work and success
Aman’s success on the Olympic stage didn’t come in a single day. In 2022, after profitable gold on the Underneath-23 Asian Championships, he grew to become the primary Indian to win a gold medal on the Underneath-23 World Championships. He went on to win back-to-back medals at numerous Grand Prix occasions, together with 2 golds, 2 silvers, and one bronze. His breakthrough got here on the 2023 Asian Video games, the place he clinched a bronze medal.
Inspiration from wrestling legends
Aman has at all times admired Sushil Kumar, who gained two Olympic medals for India: a bronze on the 2008 Beijing Video games and a silver on the 2012 London Video games. He’s additionally keen on Ravi Kumar Dahiya, the wrestler who gained silver on the Paris Olympics. Aman secured his place on the Paris Olympics by defeating Ravi within the wrestling trials, incomes his ticket to the grand occasion.
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