Milkha Singh

Milkha Singh otherwise called the Flying Sikh is an Indian previous Olympic style events sprinter who was acquainted with the game while serving in the Indian Army. He was the main Indian competitor to win an individual sports gold decoration at a Commonwealth Games until Krishna Poonia won the plate gold award at the 2010 province Games. He likewise won gold decorations in the 1958 and 1962 Asian Games. He spoke to Indian in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome and the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He was granted the Padma Shri, Indian's fourth-most noteworthy nonmilitary personnel respect, in acknowledgment of his brandishing accomplishments. 

The race for which Singh is best recalled is his fourth-place finish in the 400 meters last at the 1960 Olympic Games, which he had entered as one of the top choices. He drove the race till the 200m imprint before dialing down, enabling others to pass him. different records were broken in the race, which required a photograph - finish and saw American Otis Davis being announced the victor by one-hundredth of a second over German Carl Kaufmann. Singh's fourth-place time of 45.73 turned into the Indian national record and help for right around 40 years 

From beginnings that saw him stranded and dislodged during the Partition of India, Singh has turned into a donning symbol in his nation. in 2008, columnist Rohit Brijnath portrayed Singh as "the best competitor India has ever delivered". In July 2012, The Independent said that" India's most adored Olympian is a courageous washout" and noticed the scarcity of progress at the time-20 awards accomplished by Indian rivals in the Olympic Games in spite of the nation having a populace more than one billion. 

Global profession 

He spoke to India in the 200m and 400m challenge of the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games. His naiveté implied that he didn't advance from the warms however a gathering with the inevitable 400m boss at those Games, Charles Jenkins, both motivated him to more prominent things and furnished him with data about preparing strategies. 

In 1958, Singh set precedents for the 200m and 400m in the National Games of India, held at Cuttack, and furthermore won gold awards in similar occasions at the Asian Games. He at that point won a gold award in the 400m challenge at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games with a period of 46.6 seconds. This last accomplishment made him the main gold medalist at the Commonwealth Games from Independent India. Before Vikas Gowda won the gold in 2014, Milkha was the main Indian male to have won an individual gold decoration at those Games.