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Times crest milkha singh biography

          Milkha Singh, like our other Indian runners, never won an Olympics medal....

          Milkha Singh, The Race of My Life: An Autobiography (New Delhi: Rupa Publications, ) Siddharth Saxena, “Spoilsports,” Times of India, Crest ed.

          Milkha Singh

          Indian athlete (–)

          For the Indian Test cricketer, see A. G. Milkha Singh.

          Milkha Singh (20 November – 18 June ),[a][2] also known as "The Flying Sikh", was an Indian track and field sprinter who was introduced to the sport while serving in the Indian Army.

          He is the only athlete to win gold at metres at the Asian Games as well as the Commonwealth Games. He has won gold medals in the and Asian Games. He represented India in the Summer Olympics in Melbourne, the Summer Olympics in Rome and the Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

          Singh was awarded the Padma Shri in , India's fourth-highest civilian honour, in recognition of his sporting achievements.

          Milkha's run for a better life started as a year-old when he escaped from Pakistan to Delhi after witnessing a bloodbath that claimed his parents during the.

        1. Born in in Faisalabad, now in Pakistan, Milkha was orphaned in the massacre that marked the India-Pakistan Partition.
        2. Milkha Singh, like our other Indian runners, never won an Olympics medal.
        3. Little wonder that Farhan Akhtar plays Milkha Singh, all gym-contoured abs and biceps.
        4. Milkha Singh was born in in India and witnessed the partition of India as a child, during which his family was killed.

          5. The race for which Singh was best remembered is his fourth-place finish in the metres final at the Olympic Games, which he had entered as one of the favourites. He led the race till the m mark before easing off, allowing others to pass him.

          Various records were broken in the race, which required a photo-fi