Asian Games gold medalist Indian boxer Kaur Singh, who as soon as fought the mythical Muhammad Ali in an exhibition bout, died on Thursday at a health center in Kurukshetra, Haryana.
He used to be 74 and used to be present process remedy for a couple of well being issues.
The former Army guy have been dwelling at his local village Khanal Khurd in Punjab’s Sangrur district.
Notably, the boxer fought a four-round exhibition fit with Ali in January 1980. He received the heavyweight boxing gold medal on the 1982 Asian Games in New Delhi.
In reputation of his achievements, Kaur Singh used to be conferred with the Arjuna Award in 1982 and Padma Shri in 1983.
“Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday expressed profound grief and sorrow over the sad demise of former Olympian and veteran boxer Kaur Singh who breathed his last in a private hospital at Kurukshetra this morning. He is survived by two sons and a daughter,” stated an authentic commentary right here.
Mann stated Kaur Singh made India proud through incomes title and reputation within the nationwide in addition to global area.
The boxer additionally represented the rustic within the Olympic Games.
He stated the existence and contributions of Kaur Singh would ever encourage the aspiring boxers.
Earlier this month the Punjab executive introduced plans to put up existence tales of 4 mythical athletes within the college curriculum. Kaur Singh is one in every of them, in conjunction with hockey icon Balbir Singh Senior, mythical athlete Milkha Singh and Olympian Gurbachan Singh Randhawa.
Punjab schooling minister Harjot Singh Bains had previous this month stated that their existence tales had been integrated within the bodily schooling textbooks of categories 9 and 10.