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The Times of India
The Times of India
Sport
Neel Kamal | TNN

Olympian Kaur Singh, who won laurels for India in boxing, passes away

BATHINDA: Olympian Kaur Singh, who brought laurels for India in the prime of his youth, passed away due to prolonged illness at the age of 74 years on Thursday. The international boxer faced getting neglected in the last year's of his life and it is only 9 months when a biopic was prepared on him in July 2022 for sportspersons to learn from his struggling life without losing heart

Kaur Singh represented India in the Olympics, won six Gold Medals in various tournaments in Asian countries including Asian Games in 1982 but getting very less. He had to wait for over three decades for the cash prize of Rs. 1 lakh announced at the time of his winning Asian Games Gold Medal in heavyweight Boxing.

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