Top 5 records of Mikha Singh

As we know that due to covid 19 we have lost many celebrities, one of them is also the great colossal sportsman Milkha Singh who brought laurels to this country of India.

Milkha Singh passed away on 18-06-2021 due to Covid-19 complications; PM Modi says, "we have lost a colossal sportsperson."

Milkha Singh, known as the Flying Sikh, breathed his last in Chandigarh on Friday night. The 91-year old had contracted Covid-19 a month back and lost his wife Nirmal Kaur to the virus earlier this week.https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/flying-sikh-milkha-singh-dies-of-covid-270461

It has been decades since Milkha Singh retired, but till today, significantly few Indian sprinters have come close to matching his caliber and the rich legacy he left behind. Hailed as one of the greatest athletes the country has ever produced, Singh's achievements have been well-documented, and even now, he remains a big inspiration for athletes in India.

Top 5 records of Milkha Singh

1. 1958 Asian Games(200 m)

2. 1958 Asian Games(400 m)

3. 1958 Commonwealth(440 yards)

4. 1962 Asian Games(400 m)

5. 1962 Asian Games(4*400 m relay)

Sl.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	4*400 m relay
6.	Silver	1964 Culcutta National Games	400m

That summer of 1958 remains the best year in Milkha's career. Besides the 200m and 400m national records, he secured a golden double (200m and 400m) at the Asian Games in Tokyo.

In 1958, Singh set records for the 200m and 400m in the National Games of India, held at Cuttack,[8] and also won gold medals in the same events at the Asian Games. Click the below link to watch a video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhSklE92NOo

He then won a gold medal in the 400m (440 yards at this time) competition at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games with a time of 46.6 seconds. This latest achievement made him the first gold medalist at the Commonwealth Games from independent India. Before Vikas Gowda won the Gold in 2014, Milkha was the only Indian male to have won an individual athletics gold medal at those Games.

The sprinter saved his best for the last. In the final race, he recorded 46.71 seconds to finish well ahead of South African Malcolm Spence. He became the first-ever Indian athlete to win an individual Gold in the Commonwealth Games. His achievement was unmatched for 56 years until Vikas Gowda won Gold in discus throwing at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Some sources say that he set a world record of 45.8 seconds in France, shortly before the Rome Olympics in the same year, but the official report of the Games lists the record holder as Lou Jones, who ran 45.2 at Los Angeles in 1956. At those Olympics, he was involved in a close-run final race in the 400m competition, where he was placed fourth.

Singh had beaten all the leading contenders other than Otis Davis, and a medal had been anticipated because of his excellent form. However, he made an error when leading the race at 250m, slowing down, believing that his pace could not be sustained, and looking around at his fellow competitors.

Singh believes that these errors caused him to lose his medal opportunity, and they are his "worst memory."[8] Davis, Carl Kaufmann, and Malcolm Spence all passed him, and a photo-finish resulted. Davis and Kaufman were timed at a world-record-breaking 44.9 seconds, while Spence and Singh went under the pre-Games Olympic record of 45.9 seconds, set in 1952 by George Rhoden and Herb McKenley, with times of 45.5 and 45.6 seconds, respectively.

The Age noted in 2006 that "Milkha Singh is the only Indian to have broken an Olympic track record. Unfortunately, he was the fourth man to do so in the same race. Still, the official Olympic report notes that Davis had already equaled the Rhoden/McKenley Olympic record in the quarter-finals and surpassed it with a time of 45.5 seconds in the semi-finals.

At the 1962 Asian Games, held in Jakarta, Singh won Gold in the 400m and the 4 x 400m relay. He attended the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, where he was entered to compete in the 400m, the 4 x 100m, and the 4 x 400m relay. He did not participate in either the 400m or the 4 x 100m relay, and the Indian team of Milkha Singh, Makhan Singh, Amrit Pal, and Ajmer Singh were eliminated when they finished fourth in the heat stages of the 4 x 400m.

There have been claims that Singh won 77 of his 80 races, but these are spurious. The number of races in which he participated is not verified, nor is the number of victories. Still, he lost a 400m race at the 1964 National Games in Calcutta to Makhan Singh, and he did not finish first in any of his four races at the 1960 Olympic Games or the previous qualification races at the 1956 Olympics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kanvHKmMwSMSingh's time in the 1960 Olympics 400m final, which was run on a cinder track, set a national record that stood until 1998 when Paramjit Singh exceeded it on a synthetic way and with fully automatic timing that recorded 45.70 seconds. Although Singh's Olympic result of 45.6 seconds had been hand-timed, an electronic system at those Games had determined his record to be 45.73.

original rare interview of Milkha Singh: https://youtu.be/VdTc2IAX3Qo

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Awards and Honour

- Padma Shri in 1959. - He was bestowed with the lifetime achievement award at the second edition of the Indian Sports Honours. Currently, his mortals are kept at his Chandigarh residence. Today at 5 pm, the burial will reportedly take place in Chandigarh with full state honors.