Ranjit Singh (athlete)
Personal information | |
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Nationality | Indian |
Born | 25 November 1957 |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Racewalking |
Ranjit Singh (born 25 November 1957) in small village of punjab (Jindwari,Anandpur Sahib district Ropar )He served in indian army in mahar regiment from 1977 to 1992 . He is an Indian racewalker. He represented india in the men's 20 kilometres walk at the 1980 Summer Olympics held in moscow (russia) and finished 18 place out of 80 participants .[1]He won silver medal in 1981 asian athletics championships held in Tokyo japan.he was three times national champion in india and 5 times service’s champion in indian army. After retired from indian army . He joined sports authority of india as a national athletics coach . He trained Indian athletes from 1993 to 2017 in india and overseas. He produced more than 100 national level athletes and international level athletes during his career.
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ranjit Singh Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 2 December 2017.