Golden Gulab Singh - Sikhs The Supreme

One of the world's finest veteran athletes, Golden Gulab Singh has won so many Gold medals in the International Veteran Athletic Games that his name became synonymous with gold and he was called Golden Gulab Singh. Born in 1905 in a village of Sirsa (Haryana) and resident of Mandi Dabwali Golden Gulab Singh won 41 gold, 6 silver and 3 bronze medals for India and set four world records in international veteran athletic meets in America, New Zealand, Singapore, Rome, Hongkong etc. His main events were long jump, high jump, triple jump, 100 and 200 metre race and discus throw.

He retired as Nayab Subedar from Burma (Mayamar) army in 1946. From 1947 to 1960 he worked as P.T.I. in Govt. High School, Mandi Dabwali. He entered in the arena of international sports in 1981 and continued to shine the name of his country in the International Veteran Athletic Meets upto the age of 94. He died on 27th March 1998 due to sudden The Mighty Sikhs / 218 heart attack.

As usual, in India he was also a victim of govt. apathetic attitude. He was not honoured with any award from state or central govt. Only once Haryana govt. gave him fare for his New Zealand tour. Once his well-wishers in America gifted him a car but due to shortage of money for paying custom duty he could not bring it to India. If a nation does not respect its heroes, past and present, the time will come when it will have nothing. His one son and one daughter from his second marriage are also good players of football and hockey respectively.

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