Bahadur Singh Chauhan
Indian shot putter
![]() Singh at the 1974 Asian Games | |
Personal information | |
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Born | 8 February 1946 (1946-02-08) (age 78) |
Height | 179 cm (5 ft 10 in) |
Weight | 105 kg (231 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Shot put |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best | 18.66 (1976)[1][2] |
Bahadur Singh Chauhan, born on 8 February 1946 in a Sikh Rajput family is a former Indian shot putter. Between 1973 and 1985 he won three gold, two silver and three bronze medals at the Asian Games and Championships. He placed 15th at the 1980 Summer Olympics,[1] and was honoured with Arjuna award and Padma Shri. He is a recipient of Dronacharya Award, by the government of India.[3] He worked as the head coach of India's athletics team before retiring in 2020[4]
References
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- ^ "List of awardees of Dronacharya Award". Archived from the original on 20 November 2012. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
- ^ "No contract extension for India's athletics head coach Bahadur Singh". The Times of India. 18 June 2020. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
External links
- Bahadur Singh Chouhan at Olympedia
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Recipients of Padma Shri in Sports
- Balbir Singh Sr. (1957)
- K. D. Singh (1958)
- Mihir Sen (1959)
- Milkha Singh (1959)
- Vijay Hazare (1960)
- Jasu Patel (1960)
- Arati Saha (1960)
- Nari Contractor (1962)
- Sonam Gyatso (1962)
- Ramanathan Krishnan (1962)
- Gostha Pal (1962)
- Polly Umrigar (1962)
- Syed Mushtaq Ali (1963)
- M. J. Gopalan (1964)
- Nawang Gombu (1964)
- Charanjit Singh (1964)
- H. P. S. Ahluwalia (1965)
- Avtar Singh Cheema (1965)
- D. B. Deodhar (1965)
- Phu Dorjee (1965)
- Wilson Jones (1965)
- Verghese Kurien (1965)
- Harish Chandra Singh Rawat (1965)
- Chandra Prakash Vohra (1965)
- Sonam Wangyal (1965)
- Kishan Lal (1966)
- Narendra Kumar (1965)
- Shankar Lakshman (1967)
- Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (1967)
- Gurdial Singh (1967)
- Prithipal Singh (1967)
- Chandu Borde (1969)
- Bishan Singh Bedi (1970)
- Moin-ul-Haq (1970)
- E. A. S. Prasanna (1970)
- Leslie Claudius (1971)
- Sailen Manna (1971)
- Ghaus Mohammad (1971)
- Chandgi Ram (1971)
- Kamaljeet Sandhu (1971)
- Gundappa Viswanath (1971)
- Harsh Vardhan Bahuguna (1972)
- B. S. Chandrasekhar (1972)
- Ajit Wadekar (1972)
- Farokh Engineer (1973)
- Pankaj Roy (1975)
- Roshan Lal Anand (1976)
- Meena Shah (1977)
- Vasudevan Baskaran (1981)
- Syed Kirmani (1982)
- Kapil Dev (1982)
- Prakash Padukone (1982)
- Vijay Amritraj (1983)
- Bahadur Singh Chauhan (1983)
- Guru Hanuman (1983)
- Eliza Nelson (1983)
- Chand Ram (1983)
- Kaur Singh (1983)
- Raghubir Singh (1983)
- Satpal Singh (1983)
- M. D. Valsamma (1983)
- Geeta Zutshi (1983)
- Charles Borromeo (1984)
- Phu Dorjee (1984)
- Chuni Goswami (1984)
- D. K. Khullar (1984)
- Bachendri Pal (1984)
- Omprakesh Agrawal (1985)
- P. T. Usha (1985)
- Anupama Gokhale (1986)
- Swaroop Kishen (1986)
- Geet Sethi (1986)
- Mohammad Shahid (1986)
- Bhagyashree Thipsay (1987)
- Dilip Vengsarkar (1987)
- Viswanathan Anand (1988)
- Mohammad Azharuddin (1988)
- Chandraprabha Aitwal (1990)
- P. K. Banerjee (1990)
- Premchand Degra (1990)
- Gulshan Rai (1990)
- Jaman Lal Sharma (1990)
- Taranath Narayan Shenoy (1990)
- Selma D'Silva (1991)
- Aspy Adajania (1992)
- Ajit Pal Singh (1992)
- Sriram Singh (1992)
- Hakam Singh (1992)
- Shiny Abraham (1998)
- Ramesh Krishnan (1998)
- Lila Ram (1998)
- Pargat Singh (1998)
- Karnam Malleswari (1999)
- Sachin Tendulkar (1999)
- Santosh Yadav (2000)
- Mahesh Bhupathi (2001)
- Malathi Krishnamurthy Holla (2001)
- Bhuvneshwari Kumari (2001)
- Leander Paes (2001)
- Dhanraj Pillay (2001)
- Sunita Rani (2001)
- Diana Edulji (2002)
- Jaspal Rana (2002)
- Mukesh Kumar (2003)
- Gopal Purushottam Phadke (2003)
- Kanhaya Lal Pokhriyal (2003)
- Jyotirmoyee Sikdar (2003)
- Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan (2003)
- K. M. Beenamol (2004)
- Gurmayum Anita Devi (2004)
- Rahul Dravid (2004)
- Sourav Ganguly (2004)
- Anju Bobby George (2004)
- S. P. Nimbalkar (2004)
- Dilip Tirkey (2004)
- Pullela Gopichand (2005)
- Anil Kumble (2005)
- Gurbachan Singh Randhawa (2005)
- Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (2005)
- Rachel Thomas (2005)
- Madhumita Bisht (2006)
- Mohan Singh Gunjyal (2006)
- Mary Kom (2006)
- Sania Mirza (2006)
- Bahadur Singh Sagoo (2006)
- Koneru Humpy (2007)
- Jeev Milkha Singh (2007)
- Bhaichung Bhutia (2008)
- Bula Choudhury (2008)
- Pankaj Advani (2009)
- MS Dhoni (2009)
- Balbir Singh Kullar (2009)
- Harbhajan Singh (2009)
- Ramakant Achrekar (2010)
- Narain Karthikeyan (2010)
- Saina Nehwal (2010)
- Virender Sehwag (2010)
- Vijender Singh (2010)
- Ignace Tirkey (2010)
- Kunjarani Devi (2011)
- Sushil Kumar (2011)
- VVS Laxman (2011)
- Shital Mahajan (2011)
- Gagan Narang (2011)
- Krishna Poonia (2011)
- Harbhajan Singh (mountaineer) (2011)
- S. M. Arif (2012)
- Ravi Chaturvedi (2012)
- Jhulan Goswami (2012)
- Zafar Iqbal (field hockey) (2012)
- Devendra Jhajharia (2012)
- Limba Ram (2012)
- Prabhakar Vaidya (2012)
- Premlata Agrawal (2013)
- Yogeshwar Dutt (2013)
- Vijay Kumar (2013)
- Girisha Nagarajegowda (2013)
- Dingko Singh (2013)
- Bajrang Lal Takhar (2013)
- Anjum Chopra (2014)
- Sunil Dabas (2014)
- Love Raj Singh Dharmshaktu (2014)
- Dipika Pallikal (2014)
- H. Boniface Prabhu (2014)
- Yuvraj Singh (2014)
- Mamta Sodha (2014)
- Saba Anjum Karim (2015)
- Mithali Raj (2015)
- P. V. Sindhu (2015)
- Sardara Singh (2015)
- Arunima Sinha (2015)
- Sushil Doshi (2016)
- Deepika Kumari (2016)
- Vikas Gowda (2017)
- Dipa Karmakar (2017)
- Virat Kohli (2017)
- Deepa Malik (2017)
- Sakshi Malik (2017)
- Shekhar Naik (2017)
- P. R. Sreejesh (2017)
- Mariyappan Thangavelu (2017)
- Saikhom Mirabai Chanu (2018)
- Somdev Devvarman (2018)
- Murlikant Petkar (2018)
- Srikanth Kidambi (2018)
- Sunil Chhetri (2019)
- Harika Dronavalli (2019)
- Gautam Gambhir (2019)
- Sharath Kamal (2019)
- Bombayla Devi Laishram (2019)
- Bajrang Punia (2019)
- Prashanti Singh (2019)
- Ajay Thakur (2019)
- Oinam Bembem Devi (2020)
- M. P. Ganesh (2020)
- Zaheer Khan (2020)
- Jitu Rai (2020)
- Tarundeep Rai (2020)
- Rani Rampal (2020)
- Anitha Pauldurai (2021)
- Anshu Jamsenpa (2021)
- Mouma Das (2021)
- Sudha Singh (2021)
- Virender Singh (2021)
- K. Y. Venkatesh (2021)
- Sumit Antil (2022)
- Pramod Bhagat (2022)
- Neeraj Chopra (2022)
- Sankaranarayana Menon (2022)
- Faisal Ali Dar (2022)
- Vandana Katariya (2022)
- Avani Lekhara (2022)
- Brahmanand Sankhwalkar (2022)
- S. R. D. Prasad (2023)
- K. Shanathoiba Sharma (2023)
- Gurcharan Singh (2023)
- Joshna Chinappa (2024)
- Rohan Bopanna (2024)
- Purnima Mahato (2024)
- Harbinder Singh (2024)
- Satendra Singh Lohiya (2024)
- Gaurav Khanna (2024)
- Uday Vishwanath Deshpande (2024)
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