Vijay Singh Chauhan
Indian decathlete
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Native name | Vijay | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Indian | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1949-01-21) 21 January 1949 (age 75) Jaitpura Kalan, Uttar Pradesh, India | ||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | India | ||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Track and field athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Decathlon | ||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | Director Sports Govt of Uttar Pradesh | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Olympic finals | Munich Olympics Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Updated on 5 July 2013 |
Vijay Singh Chauhan (born 21 January 1949)[1] is a former Indian athlete who won gold medal in decathlon in 1974 Asian Games. He participated in 1972 Olympics. He was born in 1949 in AgraUttar Pradesh state. He was honoured with Arjuna award.
References
- ^ "Vijay Singh Chauhan bio". Sportsreference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.
External links
- Vijay Singh Chauhan at Olympedia
- Vijay Singh Chauhan at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
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Asian Games champions in men's decathlon
- 1951: Fumio Nishiuchi (JPN)
- 1954–58: 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)
- 2006–10: Dmitriy Karpov (KAZ)
- 2014–18: Keisuke Ushiro (JPN)
- 2022: Sun Qihao (CHN)
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