ppt on milkhs singh

1. S.R.C.E.M
B.E-206
Language Lab Presentation
SUBMITTED TO:Prof. Aabha Dayal
SUBMITTED BY:SHUBHAM DESHMUKH

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EARLY LIFE
MAKING OF CHAMPION
INTERNATIONAL CAREER
GOLDEN PERIOD
OLYMPIC LEGEND
CALLED AS “FLYING SIKH”
AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
FILM ON MILKHA SINGH

3. ACKNOWLEDGMENT
I take the great pleasure in experiencing deep sense of gratitude
and have fortunate in receiving support,assistance and
encouragement from Dr.Anita Sethi(HOD),and Prof. Abha Dayal
for his inspiration and guidance during the complition of this
project in all respects.
We are especially indebted to all our and parents
for there immense blessing throughout our to achieve all the
success .
we would also like to thank our family members for all their
educated,effective,pleasurable and sincere advise ; and tolerating
many hours that we spent concentrating on developing the
modules comprising this work.
Last but not the least I would like to thanks my colleagues to help
me a lot during this project.

4. THE LEGEND ATHLETE MILKHA
SINGH

6. EARLY LIFE
Milkha Singh was born in 1935 at Govindpura,[ a
village 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from Muzaffargarh city
in Punjab Province, British India (now
Muzaffargarh District, Pakistan) in a Sikh Rathore
Rajput family. He was orphaned during the Partition,
when his parents, a brother and two sisters were killed
in the violence that ensued. He witnessed these
killings.
Escaping the troubles
in Punjab, where killings of Hindus and Sikhs were
continuing, by moving to Delhi, India, in 1947, Singh
lived for a short time with a married sister. He spent
some time at a refugee camp in Purana Quila and at a
resettlement colony in Shahdara, both in Delhi.
Singh became disenchanted with his life and
considered becoming a dacoit.. He successfully gained
entrance on his fourth attempt, in 1951, and while
stationed at the Electrical Mechanical Engineering
Centre[11] in Secunderabad he was introduced to
athletics.

7. MAKING OF A CHAMPION
Under the guidance of his
mentor Havaldar Gurdev
Singh, Milkha began training
hard and harder at the Army
to become an accomplished
Athlete. He showed his prowess
for the first time at the
Services Athletic Meet 1955,
wherein he finished 2nd in the
200m and 400m race events.
After delivering a much better
performance and winning both
the events at the National
Games 1956 held at Patiala,
Milkha went on to break the
200m and 400m records in the
National Games 1958, held at
Cuttack. He clocked 46.1m in
400m at National Games

8. INTERNATIONAL CAREER
Milkha represented the nation in the Melbourne Olympic
Games 1956, his first Olympic event. Although he couldn’t
fare quite well at the event being less experienced at the
time, he learnt a lot from the competition to prepare
himself well for the future meets.

9. T E GOL N P RIOD
H
DE E
P
robably the best period
during M
ilkha’s career as
an Athlete arrived
between the year 1958
and 1960. H won Gold
e
M
edals in both 200m and
400m events at the T
okyo
Asian Games 1958,
clocking 21.6 seconds and
47 seconds respectively. At
the Cardiff Commonwealth
Games held the same year,
he improved his 400m
timing to 46.16 seconds,
and grabbed a Gold M
edal
again.

10. THE OLYMPIC LEGEND
The most important occasion in Milkha’s career arrived
in the form of Rome Olympic Games 1960. In the first
heat of 400m race at the Rome Olympic Games, he
covered the race at 47.6 seconds and finished at 2nd
position. In the second heat he further improved his
timing and grabbed 2nd position again with a timing of
46.5 seconds. Karl Kaufman of Germany had outclassed
him this time. In the Semi Final heat he still finished at
2nd place, although this time he further improved the
timing with 45.9, beaten by only Ottis Davis of USA. In
the final round of the coveted race, Milkha went off like
an arrow and left all other competitors behind till the
distance of 250m. It was when he miscalculated his own
speed and committed the blunder of his lifetime and

11. Although he tried the hardest
of his lifetime to recover the
distance, the other opponents
had lagged him behind enough
for him to catch them again.
The competition was so tough
that Ottis Davis and Karl
Kaufman clocked 44.8 seconds,
while Malcolm Spence of South
Africa covered the race in 45.5
seconds. Milkha, who was
initially leading the race,
finished just 0.1 seconds later
by Spence, clocking 45.6
seconds. The difference was so
minute that the announcement
was initially held up and
further declared after a photofinish. Thus Milkha, who was a
favorite for the Gold, lost a
Bronze by a whisker, probably
the closest an Indian Athlete
could get to an Olympic Medal
till now.

12. CALLED AS “THE FLYING SIKH”
Singh was persuaded by Jawaharlal
Nehru to set aside his memories of the
Partition era to race successfully in
1960 against Abdul Khaliq in
Pakistan,Milkha Singh defeated the
Fastest Pakistani runner Abdul Khaliq
who had won a 100m Gold Medal at
Tokyo Asian Games 1958 in the year
1962, and the Pak President Ayub Khan
named him ‘The Flying Sikh’, a name
that has became immortal forever in
the history of Indian Athletics.

13. AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS
YEAR
PARTICIPATION
&
ACHIEVEMENTS
COUNTRY
1956
PARTICIPATION IN
MELBOURNE
OLYMPICS
MELBOURNE
AUSTRALIA
1958
GOLD MEDAL
WINNER IN 3RD
ASIAN GAMES
TOKYO,JAPAN
1958
GOLD MEDAL
WINNER IN 4TH
ASIAN GAMES
JAKARTA,
INDONESIA
1958
GOLD MEDAL WINNER IN
CARDIFF COMMONWEALTH
GAMES
CARDIFF,WALE
S,UNITED
KINGDOM
1959
PADMA SHRI
AWARD
NEW
DELHI,INDIA
1960
4TH POSITION IN
ROME OLYMPICS
ROME,ITALY

15. FILM ON MILKHA SINGH
A film has also been released on
Milkha Singh,to give tribute to such
a great sportsmen. The film has been
produced and directed by Rakeysh
Omprakash Mehra.The film describes
the life of Milkha Singh in a very
nice way,it is a very heart touching
movie.Farhan Akhtar played the role
of Milkha Singh in this movie. the
film gathered a highly positive
response from critics, and performed
exceptionally well at the box office,
eventually being declared a super hit
domestically and hit overseas.Bhaag
Milkha Bhaag is currently the third
highest grossing Bollywood film of
2013 in India.In the process, it
became the 21st film to enter the

17. THANK
YOU

18. BIBLIOGRAPHY
www.wikipedia.org
www.google.com
www.ibnlive.com
www.sports.ndtv.com