1. As of 2013, Milkha Singh is the only Indian male athlete to win an individual athletics Gold in Commonwealth Games.
2. He lost his parents and relatives in the riots that followed the Indo-Pak partition. A 12-year-old Milkha escaped for his life and came to India.
3. He used to walk barefoot 10 km from his village to a school in Kot Addu Tehsil (Pakistan).
4. He wanted to join Indian army, but was rejected thrice.
5. He finally got in the fourth time after he enrolled in the engineering department.
6His first competitive event was a cross-country race where he finished sixth among 500 runners.
7. Milkha Singh defeated the Fastest Pakistani runner Abdul Khaliq, who had won a 100 m Gold Medal at Tokyo Asian Games 1958 in the year 1962and therefore Pakistani President Ayub Khan named him ‘The Flying Sikh’.
8. The claim that he won 77 of 80 races is false. This would mean that he only lost three races in his entire career. In fact, he lost four races at the 1960 Olympics alone.
9. In the 1960, olypmic 400 m final, Singh ran at speed averaging 32 km/hr. For comparison treadmills only support a maximum speed of 22km/hr.
10.He lost the Bronze Medal in the 400 m event at 1960 Rome Olympics Games by just 0.1 seconds.
2. He lost his parents and relatives in the riots that followed the Indo-Pak partition. A 12-year-old Milkha escaped for his life and came to India.
3. He used to walk barefoot 10 km from his village to a school in Kot Addu Tehsil (Pakistan).
4. He wanted to join Indian army, but was rejected thrice.
5. He finally got in the fourth time after he enrolled in the engineering department.
6His first competitive event was a cross-country race where he finished sixth among 500 runners.
7. Milkha Singh defeated the Fastest Pakistani runner Abdul Khaliq, who had won a 100 m Gold Medal at Tokyo Asian Games 1958 in the year 1962and therefore Pakistani President Ayub Khan named him ‘The Flying Sikh’.
8. The claim that he won 77 of 80 races is false. This would mean that he only lost three races in his entire career. In fact, he lost four races at the 1960 Olympics alone.
9. In the 1960, olypmic 400 m final, Singh ran at speed averaging 32 km/hr. For comparison treadmills only support a maximum speed of 22km/hr.
10.He lost the Bronze Medal in the 400 m event at 1960 Rome Olympics Games by just 0.1 seconds.
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