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On May 28, 1958, Milkha Singh won India its first gold medal in a track and field event, sprinting through 400 meters at the Asian Games in Tokyo in 47 seconds flat. The next day, he turned it into...
Aug 30, 2017 · Having recently broken the Asian speed records in both the 400 meters and 200 meters, Milkha Singh was a sports hero throughout Asia, and was in Tokyo to compete in the 1958 Asian Games. Eyes bleary and bloodshot from a long flight from Calcutta, India, Singh still was amazed when he arrived in Japan, as he described in his autobiography, The ...
Sep 30, 2023 · In 1958, Milkha Singh won the gold medal in the 200-meter race and 400-meter race at the Asian Games. In the same year, he also won a gold medal in the 440-yard race at the Commonwealth Games. 1959, he was awarded the Padma Shri, India’s fourth-highest civilian award, for his sporting achievement.
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Milkha Singh's life started with running. Along sandy stretches and across canals, just to get to and from school. Ten kilometres one side, he would recount later. In 1947, he would run even more, even faster -- his father's exhortation ringing in his ears -- to escape death. With the Partition at the height of its cruel violence, Milkha would run ...
He would need all that willpower in 1951, when he was selected for the Indian army, as a jawan (junior soldier). In a camp in Secunderabad, Milkha would truly start running for the first time. Having finished sixth in a mandatory cross-country race, he was selected for further training. Havaldar Gurudev Singh, his first coach, would ask him to run ...
That stark difference between his quality and those of his compatriots would be underlined a few months later in the 1958 Commonwealth Games. In the 400m (or the 440 yards, as the meet called it at the time), he would beat a quality field to win gold -- beating South Africa's Malcolm Clive Spence by 0.3s. India won just three medals at that meet (t...
Then, the race. Rome, the 1960 Olympics. In a ridiculously tight 400m race -- the eight finalists were separated by one second -- Otis Davis won gold over Carl Kauffmann by a hundredth of a second. Just behind them, Malcolm Spence beat Milkha to bronze by one-tenth of a second. The official timings read - Davis and Kauffman 44.90s, Spence 45.50s, M...
Milkha would shrug off the disappointment of Rome to defend his 400m gold at the Asian Games in 1962, beating compatriot Makhan Singh by 0.6s to finish on 46.9s. Makhan and Milkha would combine with Daljit Singh and Jagdish Singh to win gold in the 4x400m relay as well, setting a then games record of three minutes, 10.2 seconds. He would travel to ...
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Jun 19, 2021 · Milkha represented India in the Tokyo Asian Games in 1985 after acquiring expertise at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. Milkha competed in the 200-meter and 400-meter track races, winning gold and setting new records in both events.
Jun 23, 2021 · At the Asian Games in Tokyo in 1958, he won gold medals in both the 400- and 200-meter events. A few months later, he won gold in the 400 meters at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in...
Aug 7, 2023 · Milkha Singh set a national record of 45.70 seconds in the 1960 Olympics 400m final. The record remained unbeaten for the next 38 years! Paramjeet Singh finally broke it on November 4, 1998.
