Sachin Nag
Indian swimmer
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National team | India | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1920-07-05)5 July 1920 Varanasi, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India | ||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 19 August 1987(1987-08-19) (aged 67) Calcutta, West Bengal, India | ||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 183 cm (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle, medley | ||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Calcutta | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sachin Nag (Bengali: শচীন নাগ; 5 July 1920 – 19 August 1987) was an Indian swimmer. He competed in the men's 100 metre freestyle at the 1948 Summer Olympics.[1] He also competed in the water polo at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics.[1] He scored four goals on behalf of India.[2] He won the first gold medal for India in the Asian Games when he won it in men's 100 metre freestyle swimming at the 1951 Asian Games in Delhi.[3]
References
- ^ a b Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Sachin Nag Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ Lokapally, Vijay (29 September 2014). "Sachin Nag – a forgotten legend". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
- ^ "The long wait ends for India's first Asiad gold medallist Sachin Nag". The Indian Express. 29 August 2020. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
External links
- Sachin Nag at World Aquatics
- Sachin Nag at Olympedia
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Asian Games champions in men's 100 m freestyle
- 1951 Sachin Nag (IND)
- 1954 Hiroshi Suzuki (JPN)
- 1958 Manabu Koga (JPN)
- 1962 Keigo Shimizu (JPN)
- 1966 Kunihiro Iwasaki (JPN)
- 1970 Shojiro Sawa (JPN)
- 1974 Dan Brener (ISR)
- 1978 Tsuyoshi Yanagidate (JPN)
- 1982 Ang Peng Siong (SIN)
- 1986 Katsunori Fujiwara (JPN)
- 1990 Shen Jianqiang (CHN)
- 1994 Yukihiro Matsushita (JPN)
- 1998 Shunsuke Ito (JPN)
- 2002 Chen Zuo (CHN)
- 2006 Chen Zuo (CHN)
- 2010 Park Tae-hwan (KOR)
- 2014 Ning Zetao (CHN)
- 2018 Shinri Shioura (JPN)
- 2022 Pan Zhanle (CHN)
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