From humble beginnings to internationals feats, India’s ace swimmer Khajan Singh Tokas has come a long way

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 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.

Khajan Singh Tokas CRPF
Khajan Singh Tokas
“India is now well placed now to stand again on the podium at the Asian Games after eight years next year”, Tokas said. When asked why there was a huge gap between his Asian medal in 1986 and India winning another 24 years later, Khajan Singh replied that, “though I managed to qualify for the 1988 Olympics with a timing of 1:59s, I could not manage a medal”. He admitted it was tough to win a medal as a 26-year-old then. Tokas clocked 2:03.95s in the heats to finish 28th in 200m butterfly at the Seoul Games.

Khajan Singh Tokas also spoke about the modern-day swimmers in India. He has been following Indian swimmers’ progress and said that the present scenario would encourage parents to let their children take up swimming seriously. It may be noted that Indian women have not qualified for the Asian Games since Shikha Tandon participated in 2006. Tokas feels Maana Patel and Kenisha Gupta are capable of winning medals next year.

Khajan Singh has come a long way from his humble beginnings, when he was given a daily allowance of ₹26 daily allowance for food before the 1982 Asian Games national camp in Mumbai. Khajan Singh Tokas CRPF has made friends with champion Olympic gold medalists Matt Biondi and Pablo Morales of USA. In an era when today’s swimmers said that it was difficult to exchange notes and talk to fellow swimmers from other countries during competitions, Tokas cherishes his interactions with the champion swimmers from other countries.

Location: India

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