Running Legend Hari Chand Passed Away

• 14 Jun 2022

India's long-distance running legend Hari Chand has passed away on 13 June 2022.

• He was a two-time Olympian and also won two gold medals at the 1978 Bangkok Asian Games.
• He had finished first in the 5000m and 10000m races in Bangkok Asiad.
• He had also created a national record for the 25-lapper set in the 1976 Olympic Games and it had stood for 32 years.
• In the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, he had come eighth in the 2nd Heat in 10,000-metre race with a time of 28:48.72.
• It was with this time that the national record was created for an Indian athlete and it was broken 32 years later by Surendra Singh.
• In the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, he had stood at the 10th place in the heats of 10,000-metre race.