Aman Sehrawat’s Asian Games gold: Key facts

Event: men’s freestyle 57kg, Asian Games 2026, October 3.

Final: Aman Sehrawat beat Han Chong Song of North Korea 11-7.

Semifinal: he came back from 2-6 to win 14-8 against Tajikistan’s Aiaal Belolyubskii.

Quarterfinal: he won 12-1 against Kazakhstan’s Nurdanat Aitanov.

First Indian Asian Games gold in the 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.

The final score of 11-7 meant the two wrestlers scored 18 points between them.

Aman Sehrawat won the men’s freestyle 57kg gold at the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya on Saturday, October 3.

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.

Freestyle wrestling gold medal match (representative image), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0