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 At the time of COVID-19, former swimmer Khajan Singh remembers the ‘sporting lockdown’ at the Eric Arnold Swim Centre that drove him to the podium in Seoul. It was a self-imposed lockdown by Khajan Singh that propelled him to a podium finish at the 1986 Asian Games in Seoul when he won the silver in 200m butterfly. “It was a lockdown indeed. This is for a national cause to fight COVID-19. What I experienced was my hard work in search of an Asian Games medal, a recognition for swimming which was so close to my heart,” Khajan Singh told Sportstar as he relived one of the glorious moments in Indian sports. Having begun his illustrious career with a 100m butterfly bronze at the 1979 Trivandrum junior nationals, Khajan took seven more years to reach the zenith of his swimming story which began in humble surroundings of Munirka Village in south Delhi. “It was a small pond near the Baba Ganganath Mandir where I developed my love for swimming,” said Khajan Singh . The lockdown phase...

  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 “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....