Ranjit Singh (born 25 November 1957) in small village of punjab (Jindwari,Anandpur Sahib district Ropar )He served in indian army in mahar regiment from 1977 to 1992 . He is an Indian

racewalker Racewalking, or race walking, is a long-distance discipline within the sport of athletics. Although a foot race, it is different from running in that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times. Race judges carefully asses ...

. He represented india in the men's 20 kilometres walk at the

1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...

held in moscow (russia) and finished 18 place out of 80 participants . He won silver medal in 1981 Asian athletics championships held in Tokyo, Japan. He was three times national champion in India and 5 times service's champion in the Indian army. After he retired from the Indian army, he joined sports authority of India as a national athletics coach. He trained Indian athletes from 1993 to 2017 in India and overseas. He produced more than 100 national level athletes and international level athletes during his career.

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* 1957 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics Indian male racewalkers Olympic athletes for India Place of birth missing (living people) {{India-athletics-bio-stub