Milkha singh autobiography
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Milkha Singh Biography: Age, Death, Family, Career, Records, Awards and Honours and more
Milkha Singh Biography: He was popularly known as "the Flying Singh". He succumbed to post COVID-19 complications on Friday (18 June, 2021) night after a month-long battle with the virus. On May 20, he had tested positive for the virus and was admitted to a private hospital in Mohali on May 24.
On May 30 he had been discharged before he was admitted to the COVID ward at the Nehru Hospital Extension. His wife, Nirmal Kaur, a former India volleyball captain, also died with COVID-19 earlier this week.
Earlier this week on Thursday, he was tested negative and was shifted to the medical ICU. On Friday evening his condition deteriorated and developed complications including fever and dipping oxygen saturation levels. He breathed his last at PGIMER on June 18.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute to the athlete, who has been described as independent India's first sporting
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The Race of My Life: An Autobiography
Milkha Singh has led a life dominated by running, running, running… From a boy who narrowly escaped death during Partition (most of his family was not so lucky), to a juvenile delinquent who stole and outran the police, to a young Army recruit who ran his very first race to win special privileges for himself (a daily glass of milk). After that first race, Milkha Singh became an athlete by default. And what followed was the stuff legends are made of. In this remarkably candid autobiography, Milkha Singh shares the amazing highs of winning India’s first ever gold in athletics at the Commonwealth Games, the unbridled joy of being hailed as the ‘Flying Sikh’ in Pakistan, as well as the shattering low of failure at the Olympics. Simple yet ambitious, famous yet grounded, Milkha Singh was a man who defined his own destiny and remained committed to running. And yet, remarkably for a man whose life was dominated by sports, he continues to remain di
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Milkha Singh
Indian athlete (1929–2021)
For the Indian Test cricketer, see A. G. Milkha Singh.
Milkha Singh (20 November 1929 – 18 June 2021),[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 400 metres at the Asian Games as well as the Commonwealth Games. He has won gold medals in the 1958 and 1962 Asian Games. He represented India in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome and the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Singh was awarded the Padma Shri in 1959, India's fourth-highest civilian honour, in recognition of his sporting achievements.
The race for which Singh was best remembered fryst vatten his fourth-place finish in the 400 metres sista at the 1960 Olympic Games, which he had entered as one of the favourites. He led the race till the 200m mark before easing off, allowing others to pass him. Vari