Khajan Singh Tokas

LIFE STORY:

Khajan Singh Tokas, born on 6 May 1962, is an Indian swimmer, who remained national swimming champion of India, and won a silver medal at the 1986 Asian Games in Seoul. He was awarded an Arjuna Award by Government of India in 1984. Khajan Singh was chief sports officer with the CRPF and had won a silver medal in swimming at the 1986 Asian Games in Seoul. Currently he serves as the Deputy Inspector General in the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in India.

In the National Aquatic Championship at Ahmedabad in 1987, he not only won seven Gold Medals but also created a national record in the 100 metres freestyle with a timing of 55.21 seconds, breaking his own record of 55.34 seconds set in the 1984 South Asian Games at Kathmandu. He was the undisputed king at the 1988 Nationals at Calcutta making an unprecedented haul of eight individual Gold, five of them gleaming with the additional lustre of new records. He also contributed to a Silver and a Bronze for the police relay team.

The ace swimmer, master of free style and Arjuna Awardee of 1984, Khajan Singh scored Silver at the 1986 Asian Games in Seoul in 200m Butterfly. That was the first time since 1951 that India won a medal at the Asiad. He next medal in swimming came 24 years later, when Virdhawal Khade won a bronze in the same event at 2010 Asian Games.

ACHIEVEMENTS AND AWARDS:

• Sports officer in his early career, he presently D.I.G. with the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)

  Five Gold Medals at the National School Championships 1981

• National Aquatic Championship at Ahmedabad 1987
• The ace swimmer, master free style and Arjuna Awardee 1984
• Khajan represented India in the 12th Commonwealth Games at Brisbane in 1982, IXth Asian Games at Delhi in 1982
• Khajan Singh even took part in the 1988 Olympic at Seoul 1988
• Arjuna Award for Swimming | 1984