Ajmer Singh

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Ajmer Singh is a Basketball player from India. He represented the country in the Asian Basketball Championships and in the Moscow Olympics in 1980, where he was declared the "10th best pivot player" of the world.^[1]

Being from the Ror community of Haryana, Ajmer was naturally a rough and tough player and his sole aim was to score as many baskets as possible. A dedicated man, he was remarkable for his appetite for baskets. As a result, he emerged as one of the top 10 shooters in the 1980 Moscow Olympics.^[2]

1 Background
2 Sporting Career
3 See Also
4 References

[edit] Background

Ajmer Singh Chopra was born on 12th of December, 1953 in a Ror family of the Rukanpur village. Rukanpur is a small place close to Uchana in Karnal district of Haryana. He joined Haryana Police after his education and started practicing Volleyball. He was 6'5" tall and people generally thought that he could be a good player. Just when he started getting serious about Volleyball, the local Basketball coach called him over one day. Thus started his tryst with destiny as a result of a chance happening.

[edit] Sporting Career

He proved to be a gifted Basketball player and finally, he left Volleyball and devoted all his time to his new passion. Ajmer Singh made a very intelligent move to Kota, which had a great tradition in Basketball. He played for the Rajasthan team to begin with but later he made another wise shift to Indian Railways.

The high point of his career was the Moscow Olympics and he was awarded the country's highest sporting honor, the Arjuna Award in 1982. He has been contributing to the game as a coach after his retirement from regular competition in 1990. He aims to come back to Haryana and start a Basketball Academy after his retirement from Indian Railways.

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[edit] References

^ "The following players were honoured: Arjuna awardee Anil Punj (basketball) who played in the Asian Basketball Championship held in Manila in 1973, Asian Games in 1974 at Teheran and Asian Basketball Meet at Nagoya (Japan) in 1979 and was awarded with the Maharaja Ranjit Singh Award in 1986. Arjuna awardee Ajmer Singh (basketball) who participated in Asian Basketball Championships and also represented the country in the Moscow Olympics in 1980 and was declared the 10th pivot player there" Ludhiana Tribune, Monday, May 15, 2006, Chandigarh, India[1]
^ "Roby's model player is Michael Jordon and he wants to be as exciting as the legend. The Chennai player is also a fan of the Indian legend Ajmer Singh. Ajmer was a rough and tough player and his sole aim was to score as many baskets as possible. A dedicated man, he was remarkable for his appetite for baskets. No wonder then he emerged as one of the top 10 shooters in the 1980 Moscow Olympics", Article " Hoopster on a new high", The Hindu, Thursday, Nov 21, 2002[2]