Milkha Singh
is the only Indian athlete to have won the gold medal in the 400-meter run at
the Asian Games and the Commonwealth Games. He married Nirmal Kaur, who was the
captain of the Indian women's volleyball team in 1962. His first encounter with
Nirmal Kaur was in Colombo. They have 4 sons, 3 daughters and a son. His son
Jeev Milkha Singh is a popular golfer. The great Indian sprinter Milkha Singh,
also popularly known as the “Flying Sikh”, died last night. Singh was admitted
to the hospital for coronavirus, where his report was negative on Thursday, but
yesterday his condition became critical and he passed away. Milkha Singh was
the most successful male athlete in the history of Indian sport under the
country's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal. Nehru up to the then President of
Pakistan, Field Marshal Ayub Khan, were all fans of Milkha's skills.
Milkha Singh was born on November 20, 1929, in Govindpura (now part of Pakistan) into a Sikh family. His childhood went through a very difficult time, Milkha Singh lost her parents and many siblings in the unrest after the partition of India, he had a passion for running since childhood, he ran 10 km from home to school and to school because He received the title 'Flying Sikh' so The story of Milkha Singh, who received the title 'Flying Sikh', is very interesting and has a relation to Pakistan.
Milkha Singh deeply regretted missing a medal at the Olympic Games in
Rome in 1960 and received an invitation to participate in the International
Athlete Competition in Pakistan that same year. Milkha suffered from separation
pain for a long time and did not want to go to Pakistan because of the memories
there. At the persuasion of then Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, he
decided to go to Pakistan. Abdul Khaliq's name was very well known in athletics
in Pakistan at the time, he was considered the fastest runner there, Milkha
Singh raced with him here, in this race with Abdul Khaliq the situation was
against Milkha and the whole stadium lifted the mood. of his hero, but Khalik
couldn't stand Milkha's speed. After the race, Pakistan's then-President Field
Marshal Ayub Khan named Milkha Singh the “Flying Sikh” and said: “You did not
flee today.
The Flying Sikh title. Since then he
has been known around the world by this name. The Indian government has also
honoured him with the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest award, for his
unparalleled contribution to the sport.
He joined the army in 1951. Milkha
Singh joined the army in four attempts in 1951. He finished sixth in the
endurance race during the draft, so the army selected him for special sports
training, during which time he learned his talent as a runner at the EME Center
in Secunderabad and that's why Milkha was so obsessed with becoming an athlete,
who ran a moving train to practice; During this time, his blood flowed often
and he could not even breathe, but he still practised non-stop day and night.
took part in the 200-meter and 400-meter runs for the first time at 1956
Olympic Games in Melbourne. His first international athletic experience may not
have been a good one, but this tour later paid off for him. During this time,
meeting world champion athlete Charles Jenkins was a great inspiration for him
for the future. Milkha Singh, the first Indian to win the gold medal for India
at the Commonwealth Games, set records in the 200m and 400m at the 1958 Cuttack
National Games. Later in the same year, he also won gold medals in the 200 and
400 meters at the Asian Games in Tokyo.
In 1958, Milkha proved her talent
again at the Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, England, and won the gold medal in
the 400-meter run. At that time he was the first Indian to win a gold medal for
India at the Commonwealth Games. In independent India. After the success at the
Asian Games in 1958, Milkha Singh received the position of the youth commission
in the army. At the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, he showed brilliant performance
in the 400-meter run but lagged behind in the last moments. The German athlete
Karl Kaufmann by a hundredth of a second and narrowly missed the bronze medal,
during this time also broke the old Olympic record in this race and also set a
national record with 400 meters in 45.73 seconds. His record in the 400-meter run was broken after 40 years. Milkha Singh remained India's best Olympic
competitor for decades with his outstanding achievements at the 1960 Olympic
Games in Rome and 1964 in Tokyo. At the Asian Games in Jakarta in 1962, Milkha
Singh also won gold medals in the 400 meters and four times in 400-meter relay
races.
