{"id":11450,"date":"2021-06-19T16:10:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T10:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=11450"},"modified":"2021-06-21T06:17:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T00:47:45","slug":"indian-sprint-legend-milkha-singh-dies-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=11450","title":{"rendered":"Milkha Singh, Indian sprint legend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Indian sprint legend Milkha Singh passed away on June 18 after a month-long battle with COVID-19. He was 91.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Singh, who is survived by his golfer son Jeev Milkha Singh and three daughters, died at 11.30 p.m, a family spokesperson told media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Padma Shri awardee had recently lost his wife — former national volleyball captain Nirmal Kaur (85) — to the dreaded coronavirus, when she passed away at a private hospital in Mohali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The athlete had contracted COVID-19 in May but was tested negative on May 16 before being shifted to general ICU in a hospital. However, his condition became critical with complications, including fever and dipping oxygen saturation levels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Milkha Singh, who was a four-time Asian Games gold medallist and 1958 Commonwealth Games champion, is remembered for his greatest performance — fourth-place finish in the 400m final of the 1960 Rome Olympics. He had also represented India in the 1956 and 1964 Olympic, before being awarded the Padma Shri in1959.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Indian sprint legend Milkha Singh passed away on June 18 after a month-long battle with COVID-19. He was 91. Singh, who is survived by his golfer son Jeev Milkha Singh and three daughters, died at 11.30 p.m, a family spokesperson told media.  The Padma Shri awardee had recently lost his wife — former national volleyball […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[47,3,7019],"tags":[8549,114,113,8548,8546,8547,8550],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Milkha-Singh.jpg?fit=700%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11375,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=11375","url_meta":{"origin":11450,"position":0},"title":"James Harris, WWE legend","date":"August 10, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"James Harris, a WWE legend, popularly known to fans as Kamala, passed away at age 70 from Covid-19-related complications on August 9, 2020. 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