Aman Sehrawat Storms Into Asian Games 2026 57kg Final

Aman Sehrawat arrived at the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan as the headline name in India's men's freestyle wrestling squad, having sealed his place in the 57kg category at the national trials in May by beating Rahul Deswal in the final. The wrestling programme runs from 30 September to 3 October at the Nagoya City Inae Sports Centre, and the men's freestyle 57kg competition is held on the closing day, 3 October 2026.

Sehrawat went into the Games as a reigning Olympic medallist and in good form at 57kg, having won the Budapest Ranking Series in July. He wrestles with an aggressive, fast-paced style built on ankle attacks and conditioning. India's men's freestyle squad in Nagoya also includes Sujeet Kalkal (65kg), Sagar Jaglan (74kg), Deepak Punia (97kg) and Rajat Ruhal (125kg), while the women's squad is led by Antim Panghal.

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Aman Sehrawat (born 16 July 2003 in Birohar village, Jhajjar district, Haryana) is an Indian freestyle wrestler competing in the 57 kg category. He won bronze at the 2024 Paris Olympics, becoming, at 21 years and 24 days, the youngest Indian to win an individual Olympic medal. He is also a bronze medallist at the 2022 Asian Games (Hangzhou) and a former Asian champion (2023, Astana), and he is now a finalist at the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya.

Aman Sehrawat's rise from a small village in Haryana, orphaned as a child, to become India's youngest individual Olympic medallist and a two-time continental medallist is one of Indian wrestling's most emotional stories. Trained at Delhi's famous Chhatrasal Stadium alongside Tokyo Olympic silver medallist Ravi Kumar Dahiya, he has built a reputation for relentless pace and stamina in the 57kg category. Following his Paris 2024 bronze, Northern Railway promoted him to the post of Officer on Special Duty (OSD) as a tribute to his achievement.

Aman Sehrawat was born on 16 July 2003 in the village of Birohar in Haryana's Jhajjar district. He first practised traditional mud wrestling (kushti) in his home village, and lost his mother and then his father within a few years of each other, becoming an orphan by the age of 11. He was subsequently raised by his extended family.

Inspired by Sushil Kumar's silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics, Sehrawat enrolled as a child at the renowned Chhatrasal Stadium akhada in North Delhi, the training base that has produced Olympic medallists Sushil Kumar, Yogeshwar Dutt, Bajrang Punia and Ravi Kumar Dahiya, where he trains under coach Lalit Kumar.

Sehrawat won his first Asian Games medal at the 2022 Asian Games, held in Hangzhou in October 2023 after a pandemic-related postponement. Competing in the 57kg freestyle category, he lost in the semi-final but bounced back to win his bronze medal bout, finishing on the podium at his first Asian Games.

• 2019: Gold at the Asian Cadet Wrestling Championships, an early breakthrough on the junior circuit.
• 2021: Won his first senior National Wrestling Championship title.
• 2022: Became the first Indian wrestler to win gold at the U23 World Wrestling Championships (57kg, Pontevedra), also winning gold at the U23 Asian Championships and bronze at the U20 Asian Championships, before taking bronze at the Asian Games in Hangzhou.
• 2023: Won gold at the Asian Wrestling Championships in Astana (57kg), beating Kyrgyzstan's Almaz Smanbekov in the final at age 19.

Sehrawat opened 2024 by winning gold at the Zagreb Open Grand Prix in January, and then secured India's Olympic quota in the 57kg category at the World Olympic Qualification Tournament in Istanbul. The Wrestling Federation of India selected him ahead of Tokyo Olympic silver medallist Ravi Kumar Dahiya for the Paris Games. In Paris he beat North Macedonia's Vladimir Egorov 10-0 and Albania's Zelimkhan Abakarov 12-0, lost the semi-final 0-10 to top seed Rei Higuchi of Japan, and then beat Puerto Rico's Darian Cruz 13-5 to win the bronze medal, becoming, at 21 years and 24 days, India's youngest individual Olympic medallist.

After his Olympic bronze, Sehrawat won gold at the 2025 Kocaeli Grand Prix in the 57kg category. Later that year he hit a setback at the 2025 World Championships in Zagreb, where he missed the 57kg weight limit by 1.7kg before his opening bout. The Wrestling Federation of India suspended him for a year from 23 September 2025, but lifted the suspension in November 2025 after a disciplinary committee treated it as a first-time violation, clearing the way for his return in 2026. His recent record is summarised below.

Sehrawat opened his 2026 season by stepping up to the 61kg category at the Zagreb Open Ranking Series in February, finishing with the silver medal after losing the final to USA's Austin DeSanto. He continued at 61kg at the Asian Wrestling Championships in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, where he took silver after a 10-13 loss to North Korea's Kim Kwang-myong in the final on 12 April. Returning to his primary 57kg category, he won gold at the Budapest Ranking Series in Hungary on 15 July, beating Georgia's Roberti Dingashvili 13-3 by technical superiority in the final. He had already confirmed his place in India's wrestling squad for the Asian Games by beating Rahul Deswal in the 57kg final at the national selection trials in May. At the Asian Games itself he won three bouts on 3 October to reach the final.

Sehrawat's next bout is the men's freestyle 57kg gold-medal final against North Korea's Chong Song on Saturday 3 October 2026 at the Nagoya City Inae Sports Centre. He is assured of at least silver. Exact bout times can change on the day, so check the official schedule. Live coverage in India is on the Sony Sports Network and SonyLIV.

Sehrawat competes primarily in the men's freestyle 57kg category and reached a career-high world ranking of No. 2 in August 2024, shortly after his Paris Olympic bronze.

• Arjuna Award (2024): Conferred by President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 17 January 2025, for his outstanding performance in wrestling following his Paris Olympic bronze medal.
• Paris 2024 Olympic Bronze: Youngest Indian ever to win an individual Olympic medal, at 21 years and 24 days.
• Asian Games Bronze (2022 Hangzhou): His first continental Games medal, won in the 57kg freestyle category.
• First Indian U23 World Champion: Became the first Indian wrestler to win gold at the U23 World Wrestling Championships, in 2022.
• Officer on Special Duty, Northern Railway: Promoted to OSD by Northern Railway as a tribute following his Paris Olympic medal.

He also won gold at the 2019 Asian Cadet Wrestling Championships, bronze at the 2022 U20 Asian Championships, and Grand Prix Ranking Series gold medals at the 2022 Almaty Open, the 2024 Zagreb Open and the 2025 Kocaeli Grand Prix, along with silver at the 2022 Veliko Tarnovo and Tunis opens, the 2024 Budapest Ranking Series and the 2026 Zagreb Open (61kg).

Sehrawat trains at Delhi's Chhatrasal Stadium, the same akhada that produced Tokyo Olympic silver medallist Ravi Kumar Dahiya, whom Sehrawat shadowed for years before eventually being picked ahead of him for the Paris Olympics. At the 2026 Asian Games he is part of an Indian wrestling contingent that also includes Sujeet Kalkal, Deepak Punia and Antim Panghal. Antim reached the women's 53kg final on the same day as Aman's semi-final, while Deepak Punia (97kg) and Sagar Jaglan (74kg) were set to wrestle for bronze. His main continental rivals in the 57kg category come from wrestling powerhouses such as Japan, Iran, North Korea and Central Asia.

Aman Sehrawat's story matters well beyond his medal count.

• Youngest Indian ever to win an individual Olympic medal, at 21 years and 24 days
• Part of the Chhatrasal Stadium lineage of Indian wrestling Olympic medallists: Sushil Kumar, Yogeshwar Dutt, Bajrang Punia, Ravi Dahiya and Aman Sehrawat
• First Indian wrestler to win gold at the U23 World Wrestling Championships
• Orphaned by age 11, he turned personal loss into one of Indian sport's most inspiring comeback stories

From a childhood in Birohar marked by loss to an Olympic podium in Paris, Aman Sehrawat's journey continues at the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, where he is one bout away from his first Asian Games gold medal.