 "Aman Sehrawat poses with the bronze medal that he won in the Paris Olympics men's 57kg wrestling event. Reuters")
Young Aman Sehrawat ended the Indian wrestling team’s anxious wait for a first Olympic medal at the Paris Olympics by winning bronze in the men’s 57kg event on Friday.
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Sehrawat defeated Puerto Rico’s Darian Tor Cruz 13-5 in the bronze medal playoff on Friday to maintain India’s streak of winning at least one medal at the Olympics since Beijing 2008. Vinesh Phogat had earlier confirmed at least silver in the women’s 50kg event before getting disqualified for being overweight by just 100 grams in her second weigh-in.
With bronze on Olympic debut, Sehrawat became the youngest Indian to medal at the world’s biggest multi-sporting event at 21 years and 24 days of age. The record had previously belonged to shuttler PV Sindhu, who had won badminton women’s singles silver in the 2016 Games in Rio de Janiero at the age of 21 years and 4 months.
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Sehrawat’s victory led to an outpouring of celebratory posts on social media, his bronze bringing back joy among Indians on microblogging platform X, joy that had disappeared after the heartbreaking news of Vinesh’s disqualification.
Here are select reactions to Sehrawat’s bronze: