Gurbachan Singh Randhawa

Gurbachan Singh Randhawa (born 6 June 1939, in Nangli, Amritsar) is a former Indian athlete who won a gold medal at the 1962 Asian Games in decathlon. He participated in the 1960 and 1964 Olympics in 110 hurdles, high jump and decathlon. He finished fifth in the 110 hurdles at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics with a timing of 14.07 seconds. He was honoured with the Arjuna Award in 1961 and with the Padma Shri in 2005.^[1]

References

↑ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Retrieved July 21, 2015.

Asian Games champions in men's decathlon

1951: Fumio Nishiuchi (JPN)
1954–1958: Yang Chuan-Kwang (TWN)
1962: Gurbachan Singh Randhawa (IND)
1966: Wu Ah-Ming (TWN)
1970: Junichi Onizuka (JPN)
1974: Vijay Singh Chauhan (IND)
1978: Hisashi Iwai (JPN)
1982: Weng Kangqiang (CHN)
1986: Sun Xiaoguang (CHN)
1990: Munehiro Kaneko (JPN)
1994: Ramil Ganiyev (UZB)
1998: Oleg Veretelnikov (UZB)
2002: Qi Haifeng (CHN)
2006–2010: Dmitriy Karpov (KAZ)
2014: Keisuke Ushiro (JPN)

Padma Shri awards

1954–59 1960–69 1970–79 1980–89 1990–99 2000–09 2010–19

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