Milkha Singh obituary
One of India’s greatest track athletes, known as ‘the Flying Sikh’, who won gold at the 1958 Commonwealth Games
One of India’s greatest track athletes, Milkha Singh, who has died aged 91 of Covid-19, was known as “the Flying Sikh” in recognition of his running achievements. He was the first representative of independent India to win a gold medal at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games, in Cardiff in 1958, when he won the 440 yards, having taken gold medals at 200 and 400 metres in the Asian Games in Tokyo earlier in the year.
By 1960, Singh was expected to be among the medals at the Rome Olympics. He had looked superb in winning the AAA Championships that year at White City, ahead of GB’s Robbie Brightwell, and he knew he was in great form. Singh was going well in the final but, as he approached the home straight, he deliberately eased back fearing he had gone too fast to that point. Momentum lost, he finished only fourth, and always regretted what might have been.
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