Following his Asian Games success, he was one of the recipients of the Arjuna Award.Īfter the Seoul championship in 1975, Shivnath switched to running a marathon. In between, he won the 5,000 m gold and 10,000 m silver at the Tehran Asiad in 1974. He repeated the silver-winning performance, in both events in the 1975 championship in Seoul, South Korea. He won a silver each in 5,000m and 10,000m. Shivnath Singh’s international long-distance running career started with the 1973 Asian Championship in Marikina, Philippines. Jaipal Singh Munda, an Oxford Blue who led India to a hockey gold at the Amsterdam Olympics in 1928, and Nawada born Sheoo Mewalal, a legendary footballer who plied his trade in Calcutta, and represented India in the 1948 London Olympics and scored the winning goal in the finals of the inaugural Asian Games against Iran in 1951 are the only two who can be compared to him.
He is also perhaps the greatest sportsperson from undivided Bihar. Not many remember Naib Subedar Shivnath Singh of the Bihar Regimental Centre.Ī barefooted long-distance runner from Bihar, Shivnath is the greatest Indian marathon runner.
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