Gurbachan Singh Randhawa

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Gurbachan Singh Randhawa (born 6 June 1939, Nangli, Amritsar) is a former Indian athlete who won a gold medal at the 1962 Asian Games in decathlon. He participated in the 1960 and 1964 Olympics in 110 hurdles, high jump and decathlon. He finished fifth in the 110 hurdles at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics with a timing of 14.07 seconds. He was honoured with the Arjuna Award in 1961 and with the Padma Shri in 2005.

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Asian Games champions in men's decathlon

1951: Fumio Nishiuchi (JPN)
1954: Yang Chuan-Kwang (TWN)
1958: Yang Chuan-Kwang (TWN)
1962: Gurbachan Singh Randhawa (IND)
1966: Wu Ah-Ming (TWN)
1970: Junichi Onizuka (JPN)
1974: Vijay Singh Chauhan (IND)
1978: Hisashi Iwai (JPN)
1982: Weng Kangqiang (CHN)
1986: Sun Xiaoguang (CHN)
1990: Munehiro Kaneko (JPN)
1994: Ramil Ganiyev (UZB)
1998: Oleg Veretelnikov (UZB)
2002: Qi Haifeng (CHN)
2006: Dmitriy Karpov (KAZ)
2010: Dmitriy Karpov (KAZ)

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Name	Randhawa, Gurbachan Singh
Alternative names
Short description	Indian decathlete
Date of birth	6 June 1939
Place of birth	Nangli, Amritsar, India
Date of death
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