Siri Chand Ram (born 26 January 1958) is a former

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

n athlete who won

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1982 Asian Games The 9th Asian Games ( hi, 1982 एशियाई खेल) were held from 19 November to 4 December 1982, in Delhi, India. 74 Asian and Asian Games records were broken at the event. This was also the first Asiad to be held under the aegis of ...

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in 20 kilometre road walk event. He also represented India at the 1984 Olympics. He was presented the

Arjuna Award The Arjuna Award, officially known as Arjuna Awards for Outstanding Performance in Sports and Games, is the second-highest sporting honour of India, the highest being the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award. The award is named after Arjuna, one ...

and the

Padma Shri Padma Shri (IAST: ''padma śrī''), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest Indian honours system, civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted on 2 January 1954, ...

Awards

* 1982: Arjuna Award in Athletics * 1983:

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* Living people 1958 births Athletes from Haryana Indian male racewalkers Olympic athletes for India Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics Asian Games gold medalists for India Asian Games bronze medalists for India Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 1982 Asian Games Athletes (track and field) at the 1986 Asian Games Commonwealth Games competitors for India Athletes (track and field) at the 1982 Commonwealth Games World Athletics Championships athletes for India Recipients of the Arjuna Award Recipients of the Padma Shri in sports Asian Athletics Championships winners Medalists at the 1982 Asian Games Medalists at the 1986 Asian Games {{India-athletics-bio-stub