Bahadur Singh Chouhan

Bahadur Singh Chouhan (born 8 February 1946) is a former Indian athlete who won gold medals in shot put in 1978 and 1982 Asian Games. He was honoured with Arjuna award and Padma Shri. He is a recipient of Dronacharya Award, by the government of India. Presently he is working as a chief coach of Indian athletics team.^[1]

References

Asian Games champions in men's shot put

1951: Madan Lal (IND) 1954–1958: Parduman Singh Brar (IND) 1962: Teruo Itokawa (JPN) 1966–1970: Joginder Singh (IND) 1974: Jalal Keshmiri (IRI) 1978–1982: Bahadur Singh Chouhan (IND) 1986: Ma Yongfeng (CHN) 1990: Cheng Shaobo (CHN) 1994–1998: Liu Hao (CHN) 2002: Bahadur Singh (IND) 2006–2014: Sultan Al-Hebshi (KSA)

Padma Shri awards

1954–59 1960–69 1970–79 1980–89 1990–99 2000–09 2010–19

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