Metro Nagpur Marathon - Latest News Update, Information, Photos & Videos on Metro Nagpur Marathon at Lokmat Times

Nagpur, June 19Legendary athlete Milkha Singh who passed away on Wednesday night due to Covid-19 related complications had visited Orange City on two occasions and city's retired teacher from Saraswati Vidyalaya Chandrakant Virkhare was mainly instrumental in bringing him to the city on both occasions.On November 27, 2016, 'Flying Sikh' Milkha Singh flagged off the Mazee Metro Nagpur Marathon at LIT College ground and prior to that way back in 1985 he visited Nagpur for National Veteran'sAthletics Championship.While sharing his experiences with India's biggest sporting icon Virkhare said, he worked with him for ten years to promote veteran's athletics in the country. From 1991 to 2000 being the secretary of All IndiaVeteran's athletics Association he had given me some responsibilities. As a person, he was very simple and straight forward. I had very cordial relations with him and his family. He never ran behind awards and fame".Virkhare said Milkha Singh was physically fit and the Nagpurians had experienced it when he was invited as chief guest to flag off the marathon. " He always used to motivate the people to keep them fit. In fact ' Keep Fit' was his slogan".Speaking about the personality of the legendary athlete Virkhare said, " The main quality of Milkha Singh was that he used to remember the people. Whenever I used to go for the nationals as Vidarbha unit secretary, he used to spend some time with me to discuss the issues".In 1998 Milkha Singh inspected Police Line Takli ground for the veteran's national athletic meet. Virkhare said Milkha Singh sent him to Hongkong as the manager of the Indian team for the international Veterans Championship.Virkhare signed off by saying that Milkha was a wonderful person who contributed to sports till his last breath.

Home

City

Latest News

Cricket

LT Premium

National

International

Maharashtra

Opinions

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar

Nagpur

Entertainment

Photos

Business

Technology

Sports

Lifestyle

Social Viral

Lokmat Games

Health

Lok Sabha Election 2024

Heatwave In India

Mumbai Water Cut

Maharashtra Lok Sabha Election

IPL 2024

Salman Khan

Metro Nagpur MarathonFOLLOW

Metro nagpur marathon, Latest News

Nagpur :' Sprint legend Milkha was straight forward'

Nagpur, June 19 Legendary athlete Milkha Singh who passed away on Wednesday night due to Covid-19 related complications had ... ...