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Kartar Singh

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Kartar Singh
Personal information

Nationality	India
Born	7 October 1953 Village Sur Singh, Tarn Taran, Punjab
Occupation	Wrestler

Kartar Singh
Medal record
Representing India
Men's Freestyle Wrestling
Commonwealth Games
	1978 Edmonton, Alberta	90 kg
	1982 Brisbane	90 kg
Asian Games
	1978 Bangkok	90 kg
	1982 Delhi	90 kg
	1986 Seoul	100 kg

Kartar Singh (born 7 October 1953) is an Indian wrestler who won gold medals at the Asian Games in 1978 and 1986. He stood 7th at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 100 kg Wrestling.^[1]

Life[edit]

Kartar Singh was born in Sur Singh village of the present-day Tarn Taran districtinPunjab. He won gold medals in the 1978 Asian Games held in Bangkok and the 1986 Asian Games held in Seoul. He won a silver medal in the 1982 Asian Games held in Delhi. He won a bronze medal in the 1978 Commonwealth GamesinEdmonton and a silver medal in the 1982 Commonwealth GamesinBrisbane.^[2] Later he moved his residence to Jalandhar, where he worked as Superintendent of Police and as Director Sports of Punjab. Presently he is a master world champion in wrestling and retired as an Inspector General of Police in Punjab in the year 2013.^[3]

Awards and honors[edit]

In 1982 he received the Arjuna award^[4] and in 1987 he received the Padma Shri. Many times he won the Gold Medals in the Veterans World Championships held in Columbia in 1992, Toronto in 1993, Martiony (Switzerland) in 1997 and Bodex (France) in 1998.

References[edit]

^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Kartar Singh Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 13 April 2019.

^ Kartar Singh^{[permanent dead link]}inSports Authority of India website

^ "Kartar Singh - Remembering India's only two-time Asiad gold medallist wrestler". The Bridge - Digital media covering Indian sports. Retrieved 6 September 2020.

^ "Arjuna Award Winners for Wrestling". Department of Sports, Government of India website. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 21 October 2010.