India’s lone male wrestler in the 2024 Games, Aman Sehrawat progressed to the men’s 57kg freestyle wrestling semifinal after beating 2022 world champion Albania’s Zelimkhan Abakarov via technical superiority (12-0) at the Paris Olympics, here on Thursday.

This was Aman’s second successive win via technical superiority. Earlier, he defeated European Championships gold medallist Vladimir Egorov of North Macedonia to make it to the last-eight stage.

Aman will take on the number one seed from Japan Rei Higuchi in the semifinal later, in the evening.