After vinesh phogat’s exit due to being overweight aman and his team look no risks in making sure that a managed to be under the limit.
Aman sehrawat weight 61.5kg After his semifinal defeat on Thursday exactly 4.5 kilograms more than the permissible limit in the men’s 57kg -but in the next 10 hours, he work triallessly with an Indian coaches to loss 4.6 kg Jagmander singh and Virendra dahiya the two senior Indian coaches attached to the 6 “member” wrestling contingent, now had a mission they could not afford another jolt after what happen with Vinesh phogat who is now fighting a legal battle against her disqualification from the women’s 50 kg final for being overweight by 100g in the second day weigh in.
The 21 year old Aman lodge the semi final against Japan Rei higuchi around 6:30 pm.
There was no time to waste .
The mission began with one and half hour mat session during which the two senior coaches engaged him in standing wrestling and it was followed by one – hour hot – bath session.
At 12:30 they hit the gym, where aman had a non stop 1 hour run on the treadmill.
The sweating would help in cutting weight was then given a 30 minute break follow by five sessions of 5 minute sauna bath .
By the end of the last session Aman was still waiting 900g more . He was given a massage and then the coaches asked the chhatarsal trainee to do light jogging.
It was followed by five 15 minutes running sessions.by 4:30 am, Aman was weighing 56.9kg — 100g less. The coaches and the wrestler heaved a sigh of relief.
In between the sessions aman was given lukekwarm water with lemon and honey and bit of coffee to drink.
Aman would not sleep after that .
“I watched videos of wrestling bouts , the whole night”. “We kept checking his weight Every hour. We didn’t sleep the whole night,note even during the day,” said coach dahiya.
Weight cutting is routine normal for us but there was tension or lot of tension due to what happen the other day with Vinesh we could not late slip another medal said Dahiya.
All the hard work come to a fruition when aman win the bronze medal, beating Puerto ricos darian cruz on Friday to become India’s youngest every Olympic medalist.
” I came with the dream of winning medal at the olympics wanted to win gold but everything happens for once good next time I will be better prepare these was a big boost for me and I have the belief now that I will surely do well in the 2028 Olympics Aman told news after the bronze medal triumph.
Following has lost to Japan’s rei higuchi in the semi finals Aman was overweight and he needed to get back into the permissible limit before the weight the wrestler side that they work overnight one as weight and he did not sleep at all as has coaches put him through multiple training sessions.
“We did a lot to lose that weight. Once the bout ended , I practiced for two hours . The. At around 1am I trained gym.by 3 , I was some what done but I did not sleep at all the main target was to get the weight with in the permissible limit did not sleep at all before the fight he explained.