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Ayush Chaturvedi
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MILKHA SINGH
 Milkha Singh
• Milkha Singh (20 November 1929 – 18 June 2021),[a][1] 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 also 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. He was awarded
the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian honour, in recognition
of his sporting achievements.

• The race for which Singh was best remembered is his fourth-place
finish in the 400 metres final 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. Various records
were broken in the race, which required a photo-finish and saw
American Otis Davis being declared the winner by one-hundredth of
a second over German Carl Kaufmann. Singh's fourth-place time of
45.73 seconds was the Indian national record for almost 40 years.

• From beginnings that saw him orphaned and displaced during the 

Partition of India, Singh has become a sporting icon in his country. In
2008, journalist Rohit Brijnath described Singh as "the finest athlete
India has ever produced
Personal Life
• As of 2012, Singh lived in Chandigarh.

• After struggle to his life meet with Nirmal Kaur , the captain of the
Indian women’s volleyball team in 1955 and married her in 1962.

• The couple has three daughters and one son.

• The son of Milkha is a Jeev Milkha Singh is a famous Golfer.

• In 1999 , the couple adopted the seven year old son of a soldier
who died in the Battle of Tiger Hill.

• Milkha Singh has donated all his medals to the nation which were
first displayed at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi.

• He invented the Milkha Singh Charitable Trust in 2003 with the

aim of helping needy sportspersons.
PROBLEMS FACED BY THEM
• Milkha Singh was around 15 years old at the time of Partition. His village, Kot Addu, was located in a remote
area near Multan. No newspapers reached the village, and the villagers were unaware of the political events
leading up to partition. The only way they received news was when someone travelled to the closest city to
buy goods. But inter-community relations were strong. People lived in harmony. Mr. Singh studied in a
mosque alongside students of different faiths. At the time, kabaddi and wrestling were popular sports.

• When a large frenzied mob arrived on the village’s outskirts, families stuck together to protect one another.
A local leader tried negotiating with the mob, but he was shot. Before dawn the next morning, the mob
entered the village. There was heavy gunfire that killed many. Mr. Singh tried hiding. He remembered seeing
his father fight bravely until he was struck by a sword. When Mr. Singh’s father fell, he pleaded with his son
to run for safety: “Bhaag Milkha, Bhaag.” Mr. Singh escaped from his village to a forest nearby, where he
spent the entire night. He believed he had lost his whole family. Early next morning, he boarded a train to
Delhi, and with the help of the passengers, hid in the women’s compartment.
 The Flying Sikh
• Milkha Singh is the first Sikh and the only Indian to have broken an
Olympic track record.

• He was also the first Indian to reach Olympic Finals.

• Milkha Singh can be described as one of the most extraordinary

athletes of our times. This man was a genius and a genius is never
trained . Without any formal training , without any financial reward
and without any emotional support ( he lost his parents during
Partition and he had only an elder brother and a sister for helpless
hope ). Milkha Singh took on the greatest athletes of his time and
proved himself as good if not better.

• The burst of speed with which he broke the previous Olympic

Games record of 5.9 seconds in 400 meters is now a part of folk lore
in Punjab.

• Tale of this story is repeated as part of Punjab ‘s rich heritage .

Milkha is no less popular than pele in Brazil and Maradona in
Argentina.
WAYS HE OVERCOME THE PROBLEMS

 Goal Setting

Goal Setting
• A powerful process for thinking about your ideal future , and for
motivating yourself to turn your vision of this future into reality.
• Helps you choose where you want to go in life
Why Set Goals ?
• Top Levels athletes , successful businesspeople and achievers in
all fields all set goals.
• Setting goals gives you long term vision and short - term
motivation.
• It focuses your acquisition of knowledge and helps you to
organize your time and your resources that you can make the
most of your life.
Achieving goals
• When you have achieved a goal , take the time to enjoy the
satisfaction of having done so.
• Absorb the implications of the goal achievement, and observe
the progress that you have made towards other goals.
 HARD WORK
• He overcome his problems through immense hardwork and he was a
hardworking personality. who train for more than 7 hours everyday for
a whole week.

DEDICATION
• He was totally dedicated to his work like he used to run without shoes, he used to
husstle and make whole nation proud. His dedication can be measured in such a
way that even though he had to admit himself to hospital due to hard and long
practising time but he never gave up.

DISCLIPLINE
• He believes in discipline and want work according to it. he value the sense
of discipline in every work weather it has to be sports or casual day
working.
• He said that one who has these three qualities the only limit for them is sky
 LEARNINGS FROM HIS LIFE
• Milkha Singh showed us that it's very important to become the person we always wish for. We should never doubt our dreams and shall work
hard to make them a reality. It was Milkha Ji’s dream to serve in the Indian Army. He was living with his sister and brother-in-law for a long
time before he finally got selected. When given a chance to run in a county race, Milkha Singh gave tough competition to all the experienced
athletes. He believed in himself and the rest is history.
• Milkha Singh Ji had a very tough childhood. His parents were prosecuted in front of him during the partition. He was all alone while coming
to India. Moreover, he was bullied a lot during his early childhood as he was an orphan. Milkha Singh Ji made sure this grief and pain helped
him achieve greatness. He could have gone over the wrong path but he didn't let his past hinder his future.

• Milkha Singh ji always made sure he was the hardest worker in the room. He used to train irrespective of weather, pain or time. In the earlier
days of his athletic career, he was still in the army. So, he had to manage the army as well as athletic training hand in hand which was two of
the toughest training drills in the world. Eventually, all this hard work paid off when he represented India and won as many as 77 out of 80
race events he took part in.

• When Milkha Singh Ji joined the official Indian Athletic Team, he was assigned a coach. Ranbir Singh (his coach) used to train him in
exceptionally hard terrains. These tough training drills were very draining but his coach told him the importance of these practice
sessions and they kept working hard. The experience of the mentor and hard work of Milkha Singh Ji finally paid off when he beat the
World Record in the Olympics in 1956

• There are countless medals and accolades that have been awarded to Mr. Milkha Singh Ji. However, he never held possession of any of
them. He gave them to Jawaharlal Nehru University. He didn't believe in materialistic success and wanted the youth of India to win gold
for India in athletics. It's the legacy and journey that mattered to him and not the rewards
 International Careers

In 1958, Singh set records for the

He then won a gold medal in the
200m and 400m in the  This latter achievement made him the
He represented India in the 200m 400m (440 yards at this time)
National Games of India, held at  first gold medalist at the
and 400m competitions of the 1956 competition at the 
Cuttack,[10] and also won gold medals Commonwealth Games from
Melbourne Olympic Games. 1958 British Empire and Commonwea
in the same events at the Asian lth Games independent India.
Games.   with a time of 46.6 seconds.

Singh was persuaded by 

Jawaharlal Nehru to set aside his
memories of the Partition era to race
Some sources say that he set a world
successfully in 1960 against  At the 1962 Asian Games, held in 
record of 45.8 seconds in France, [
Abdul Khaliq in Pakistan, where a Jakarta, Singh won gold in the 400m [9]
shortly before the Rome Olympics in
post-race comment by the then  and in the 4 x 400m relay.
the same year 
General Ayub Khan led to him
acquiring the nickname of The Flying
Sikh.
Awards
Achievements
S. No Medal Event Category
1 Gold 1958 Asian Games 200 m
2 Gold 1958 Asian Games 400 m
3 Gold 1958 Commonwealth Games 440 yards
4 Gold 1962 Asian Games 400 m
5 Gold 1962 Asian Games 4X400 m relay
6 Gold 1958 Cttack National Games 200 m
7 Gold 1958 Cuttack National Games 400 m
8 Silver 1964 Calcutta National Games 400 m

Honour
S. No. Honour Year
1 Padma Shri 1959
Passions for his sport
• Milkha started running barefoot and for three years , even
when he participated in the Army meets this was how he
ran .

• His training schedules were crazy a sort of self – imposed

penance. “We had no facilities. We began running barefoot ,
has no running shoes , no track suits , no money , no proper
tracks , nothing at all. All that we had was fierce will- power ,
a will to work hard. We did that and reached where we are .”

• Milkha’s mission in life was to excel in running . The track , as

he always said , was ‘an open book, in which he could read
the meaning and purpose of life ‘.

• From the crack of dawn to night no matter what the weather

was he trained , everyday , all through the week
Later Life

•Singh was promoted from the rank of sepoy to 

junior commissioned officer in recognition of his successes in the 1958
Asian Games.

•He subsequently became Director of Sports in 

Punjab Ministry of Education,[10] a post he retired from in 1998.

•Singh was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian

award, following his success in 1958. In 2001, he turned down an offer
of the Arjuna Award from the Indian government

•All of Singh's medals have been donated to the nation. They were
displayed at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi and later
moved to a sports museum in Patiala,

•Singh and his daughter, Sonia Sanwalka, co-wrote his autobiography,

titled The Race of My Life that inspired for flim Baagh Milkha Bhaagh
 It is hard to produce sports legends if a
country lacks infrastructure and an
amiable environment for training .

Conclusio More than his achievements on the

track , it is the remarkable journey of
n the man that is truly inspiring.

Milkha remains an iconic and revered

figure in India.
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