Khajan Singh Height, Age, Wife, Family, Biography

 

Some Lesser Known Facts About Khajan Singh

• Khajan Singh was adopted by Kishan Lal. His adoptive father and real father had been in the dairy business since 1945. Khajan’s real father had agreed to let Kishan Lal adopt one of his 4 sons. 

• He entered competitive swimming in the years 1981-82 and won various medals at the National School Championships.

• In 1982, he won multiple medals for the National Aquatic Championship held at Trivandrum.

• The same year, in the National Aquatic Championship held for the first time in Ahmedabad, now known as Prayagraj, Khajan emerged victorious and marked the national record in 100 meters freestyle in 55. 21 seconds.

• Khajan Singh broke his previous record of 56 seconds and marked a victory within 55 seconds at the National School Championship event. 

• The same year at the competition in Kathmandu he completed it in 34 seconds.
  

• He was the uncontested winner of the 1988 Nationals held in Calcutta which saw him walk away with various medals again.
  

• He also won and came first as a swimmer on the police relay team.
  

• Khajan won in the 200m Butterfly category of swimming at the Seoul Asian Games in 1986 and thus brought the swimming medal for India after three decades of the first win in 1951 at Asiad. Consecutively, he became the first Indian to win at the Asiad. 
  

• His particular international achievement was the victory at the South Asian Federation Games (now SA Games) 
  

• He bagged the third position at the Asian Swimming Championships that took place in Beijing in 1988 and the second position at the Police World Games in the 100m Butterfly category, which also took place in the same year.

• Khajan Singh was chosen to represent India for being an excellent swimmer at various international events, such as the 12 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane in 1982, the 9th Asian Games in New Delhi in 1982 the second Asian swimming championship in Seoul in 1984, and a Friendly international match at Moscow in the year 1984.

• Khajan Singh remained the national swimming champion of India and clinched the second position in the 1986 Seoul Asian Games.

• Khajan Singh was very fortunate to be trained by the Australian coach Eric Arnold and he was able to feature in the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

• He mentioned in an interview that it was due to his coach that he was able to win a silver medal at the Seoul Olympics as he pushed him to improve his timings and break records.

• In an interview, he mentioned that he liked Old Delhi but did not like the chaos of modern-day Delhi as there are too many people living in the city according to him.

• Khajan Singh in an interview said, “I hope the authorities must start working hard to remove the traffic and population problems There are lots of scopes of better law and order but this city is still nice to live in Sports played crucial roles in my personality Building and I am quite fortunate that I could learn so much thing and also serve my nation.”

• Khajan Singh runs the “Khajan Singh Swimming Academy” near the Jawaharlal Nehru University Baba Gang Nath Marg, Delhi, 110067.

• In the year 2010 during the 61st Republic Day celebration of India, he performed in a tableau with other legends of Indian sports for the 2010 Commonwealth Games at the 61st Republic Day parade in New Delhi.

• He got acquainted with Charulata, his wife, during his involvement in sports during the camps for the Seoul Asiad.

• She was an international shooter with a great reputation, and he finally became her favorite partner after five years of dating. After retiring as a swimmer, she joined the Indian National Congress Party and is a Member of Parliament.

• He started his career as a sports officer and later shifted his career path to joining the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)  as a sub-inspector, and then was promoted to the Deputy Inspector General in 2024.

• Khajan Singh had issued a petition to the Delhi High Court to provide him a Schedule caste certificate on 30 August 1979. It was initially granted due to his adoptive father’s caste. However, later on, it was denied on the basis that the adoption was not valid under the stipulations of the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956.