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Ranjit Singh (athlete)

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Ranjit Singh
Personal information
NationalityIndian
Born (1957-11-25) 25 November 1957 (age 66)
Sport
SportAthletics
EventRacewalking
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  India
Asian Championships
Silver medal – second place 1981 Tokyo 20 km walk

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 the Indian army. After he retired from the 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

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  1. ^ 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.
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