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Milkha Singh - The Flying Sikh
Category: Sports & Recreation
Duration: 00:09:00
Publish Date: 2014-08-02 03:00:00
Description: In 1958, Milkha Singh became the first Indian to win a track-and-field gold at the Commonwealth Games in Cardiff. Singh - later nicknamed the Flying Sikh - had been orphaned in the violence that followed the Partition of India. He overcame the trauma by discovering athletics while serving in the Indian army. He talks to Sporting Witness. PHOTO: Getty Images
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