Parduman Singh Brar

Parduman Singh Brar

Personal information
Nationality	Indian
Born	(1927-10-15)15 October 1927 Bhagta Bhai, Bhatinda Punjab Province, British India
Died	22 March 2007(2007-03-22) (aged 79) Bhagta Bhai, Bhatinda, Punjab, India
Sport
Country	India
Sport	Track and field
Event(s)	Shotput, Discus throw
Club	Services
Medal record Men's Athletics Competitor for  India Asian Games 1954 Manila Shotput 1954 Manila Discus 1958 Tokyo Shotput 1958 Tokyo Discus 1962 Jakarta Discus

Parduman Singh Brar (15 October 1927 – 22 March 2007) was an Indian athlete who specialized in shot put and discus throw events. He was one of the few Indians to have won multiple medals at the Asian Games.^[1]

Career

Brar was India's national champion in the shot put and discus throw events in the 1950s. He won his first national shot put event in Madras in 1958 and won the national discus throw events in 1954, 1958 and 1959. In the 1954 Asian Games in Manila, he won gold medals in the shot put and discus throw events, thus becoming the first athlete in Asia to achieve the feat. He continued his performance winning a gold in the shot put event and bronze in the discus throw event in the 1958 Asian Games in Tokyo. In his last games appearance in 1962 in Jakarta, he won a silver medal in discus throw, thus completing his medal tally of five medals in three Asian games events. He was given the Arjuna Award by the Government of India in 1999 recognizing his contribution to Indian sports.^[2]

Death

Brar, paralysed after an accident in the early 1980s, died on 22 March 2007 in his native village in Punjab after prolonged illness.^[2] Poverty stricken, he died penniless.^[3][4]

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