Aman Sehrawat beat North Korea’s Han Chong Song 11-7 in the Asian Games 2026 men’s 57kg freestyle final.
Han Chong Song is the reigning world champion, according to the Sunday Guardian.
Sehrawat trailed 6-7 before a late push.
He won gold on October 3 in Aichi-Nagoya.
He is the first Indian to win Asian Games gold in the category.
He beat North Korea’s Han Chong Song 11-7 in the final.
Han Chong Song is the reigning world champion, according to the Sunday Guardian.
Sehrawat trailed 6-7 in the final before a decisive late push, according to the same report.
He is the first Indian wrestler to win an Asian Games gold medal in the men’s 57kg category.
India had won medals in the weight class before, but none had been gold.
Sehrawat is a Paris 2024 Olympic bronze medallist in 57kg freestyle.
He also won bronze at the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou.
In the quarterfinals he beat Kazakhstan’s Nurdanat Aitanov 12-1.
In the semifinals he recovered from 2-6 down to beat Tajikistan’s Aiaal Belolyubskii 14-8.
Both Business Today and the Sunday Guardian reported the 11-7 final score and the first-in-category claim.
Sujeet Kalkal had earlier won gold in the men’s 65kg freestyle at the same Games.
The Asian Games 2026 are being held in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, from September 19 to October 4.
October 3 was Day 14 of the Games, and India also won golds in golf, archery and cricket on the same day.
Freestyle wrestling bouts are won by scoring technical points, and a bout can also end early if one wrestler leads by a large margin.
The 57kg category is one of the lighter freestyle weight classes, and it was also Sehrawat’s weight at the Paris Olympics.
Sehrawat came back from 2-6 down in the semifinal, which meant he had already won one bout from behind before the final.
Freestyle wrestling gold medal match (representative image), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
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