Kartar Singh

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{{MedalSport|Men's Freestyle Wrestling}}

{{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}}

{{MedalBronze|1978 Edmonton, Alberta|90 kg}}

{{MedalSilver|1982 Brisbane|90 kg}}

{{MedalCompetition|Asian Games}}

{{MedalGold|1978 Bangkok|90 kg}}

{{MedalSilver| 1982 Delhi| 90 kg}}

{{MedalGold| 1986 Seoul| 100 kg}}

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Kartar Singh (born 7 October 1953) is an Indian wrestler who won gold medals at the Asian Games in 1978 and 1986. He stood 7th at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 100 kg Wrestling.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/dh/kartar-dhillon-singh-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418005023/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/dh/kartar-dhillon-singh-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Kartar Singh Olympic Results |accessdate=13 April 2019}}

Life

Kartar Singh was born in Sur Singh village of the present-day Tarn Taran district in Punjab. He won gold medals in the 1978 Asian Games held in Bangkok and the 1986 Asian Games held in Seoul. He won a silver medal in the 1982 Asian Games held in Delhi. He won a bronze medal in the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton and a silver medal in the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane.[http://sportsauthorityofindia.nic.in/index4.asp?ssslid=301&subsubsublinkid=127&langid=1 Kartar Singh]{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} in Sports Authority of India website Later he moved his residence to Jalandhar, where he worked as Superintendent of Police and as Director Sports of Punjab. Presently he is a master world champion in wrestling and retired as an Inspector General of Police in Punjab in the year 2013.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=23 September 2019|title=Kartar Singh - Remembering India's only two-time Asiad gold medallist wrestler|url=https://thebridge.in/latest/kartar-singh-double-asian-games-gold-medallist-wrestler/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=6 September 2020|website=The Bridge - Digital media covering Indian sports}}

Awards and honors

In 1982 he received the Arjuna award{{cite web|url=http://yas.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/1068900370.htm|title=Arjuna Award Winners for Wrestling|publisher=Department of Sports, Government of India website|accessdate=21 October 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719023534/http://yas.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/1068900370.htm|archive-date=19 July 2011|url-status=dead}} and in 1987 he received the Padma Shri. Many times he won the Gold Medals in the Veterans World Championships held in Columbia in 1992, Toronto in 1993, Martiony (Switzerland) in 1997 and Bodex (France) in 1998.

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