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Milkha Singh

1935 - 2021

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Milkha Singh (20 November 1929 – 18 June 2021), 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Milkha Singh is the 637th most popular athlete (down from 247th in 2019), the 78th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 57th in 2019) and the most popular Pakistani Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Milkha Singh ranks 637 out of 6,025. Before him are Sverre Stenersen, Lars Hall, Gyula Török, Émile Delchambre, Jan Brzák-Felix, and Lidiya Alfeyeva. After him are Jean Cau, Maurice Hemelsoet, Sueo Ōe, Glenn Hardin, Maricica Puică, and Mykola Avilov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Milkha Singh ranks 303. Before him are Johnny Pacheco, Victor J. Stenger, Heinz Schneiter, Jiří Čadek, Mario Bellini, and Géza Alföldy. After him are Vladimir Levenshtein, José María Gil-Robles, Omero Antonutti, Gary Peacock, Henry Gibson, and Michel Subor. Among people deceased in 2021, Milkha Singh ranks 347. Before him are Alfred Teinitzer, Valentin Afonin, Jiří Čadek, Jim Steinman, Kadir Topbaş, and Susana Higuchi. After him are Pedro Casado, Jacques Tits, Gustavo Peña, Fausta Morganti, Jeannette Altwegg, and Ivan Toplak.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Milkha Singh ranks 78 out of 217. Before him are Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry (1904), Shah Mahmood Qureshi (1956), L. K. Advani (1927), Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911), Fazlur Rahman Malik (1919), and Sunil Dutt (1929). After him are J. B. Kripalani (1888), Yash Chopra (1932), Prithviraj Kapoor (1906), Nasirul Mulk (1950), Duleep Singh (1838), and Art Malik (1952).

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Among ATHLETES In Pakistan

Among athletes born in Pakistan, Milkha Singh ranks 1. After him are Abdul Hamid (1927), Noor Alam (1929), Robbie Brightwell (1939), Prithipal Singh (1932), Arshad Nadeem (1997), Najma Parveen (1990), Muhammad Khalil Akhtar (1984), and Talha Talib (1999).

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