In the bronze medal match, the Indian will face Puerto Rican wrestler Darian Cruz.
Aman Sehrawat will fight for bronze at the 2024 Paris Olympics after he lost via technical superiority to the top-seeded Rei Higuchi of Japan in the men’s freestyle 57kg semi-final at the Champ-de-Mars Arena on Thursday.
In the bronze medal match, the Indian will face Puerto Rican wrestler Darian Cruz on Friday.
In the semi-final, Rei Higuchi dominated the bout right from the first whistle. The 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics silver medalist scored four points in his first attack and continued to accumulate points throughout the first period. The match concluded in just two minutes and 14 seconds.
Sehrawat had a tough draw as Higuchi is a not only a former Olympic silver medallist but had missed out on the qualification for the 2020 Tokyo Games after missing the weight at the Asian Olympic Qualifiers in Almaty, Kazakhstan in 2021.
