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| Nationality | Indian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 November 1957 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Racewalking | ||||||||||||||
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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.
