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Khajan Singh
Khajan Singh is an Indian swimmer who was awarded Arjuna Award by the Government of India in the year 1984.

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Khajan Singh, Indian SwimmerKhajan Singh who is also Khajan Singh Tokas is an Arjuna Award winner and the national swimming champion. He won a silver medal at 1986 Asian Games.

Early Life of Khajan Singh
Khajan Singh who is also Khajan Singh Tokas was born on 6th May in the year 1964. He is an Indian swimmer, who remained national swimming champion of India, and won a silver medal at the 1986 Asian Games in Seoul. He was awarded an Arjuna Award by Government of India in 1984. He was born and brought up in Munirka Village. Khajan Singh went to study at the Government Senior Secondary School, Sarojini Nagar, in Delhi.

Career of Khajan Singh
Khajan Singh who is also Khajan Singh Tokas made his debut in competitive swimming by winning five Gold Medals at the National School Championships in 1981-82. Six-Footer Khajana entered the National Aquatics Championship at Delhi in 1982 and outclassed all competitors by winning five Gold, two Silver and one Bronze. The following year at the Nationals in Trivandrum, he stroked his way to seven gold, two Silver and one Bronze. Again in the National Aquatic Championship at Ahmedabad in 1987, Khajan Singh not only won seven Gold Medals but also created a national record in the 100 metres freestyle with a timing of 55.21 seconds, breaking his own record of 55.34 seconds set in the 1984 South Asian Games at Kathmandu. He was the undisputed king at the 1988 Nationals at Calcutta making an unprecedented haul of eight individual Gold, five of them gleaming with the additional luster of new records. He also contributed to a Silver and a Bronze for the police relay team. The ace swimmer, master free style and Arjuna Awardee of 1984, Khajan scored Silver at the 1986 Asian Games in Seoul in 200m Butterfly. That was the first time since 1951 that India won a medal at the Asiad. The next medal in swimming came 24 years later, when Virdhawal Khade won a bronze in the same event at 2010 Asian Games. His most outstanding international performance was at the South Asian Federation Games (now known South Asian Games), where he won Gold Medals at Kathmandu in 1984 and seven at 2004 South Asian Games at Islamabad in 1989. He won a Bronze at the 1988 Asian Swimming Championships in Beijing and Silver in the 100 metres butterfly at the world Police Games in 1988.

Later Career of Khajan Singh
Khajan Singh represented India in the 12th Commonwealth Games at Brisbane in 1982, IXth Asian Games at Delhi in 1982, 2nd Asian Swimming Championship at Seoul in 1984, friendly International Game at Moscow in 1984. Coached by Australian coach Eric Arnold, Khajan Singh even took part in the 1988 Olympic at Seoul. He has started a sports officer in his early career; he is presently D.I.G. with the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).


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